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I sort of like the idea of avoiding exactly representable floats (you typed 4 but maybe you get 4-ε) to remind programmers that errors creep into most expressio
by erik_seaberg 6y ago
I sort of like the idea of avoiding exactly representable floats (you typed 4 but maybe you get 4-ε) to remind programmers that errors creep into most expressions and compound, and tight error bounds require numerical error analysis.
- jdsully 6y agoI wish we hd float hardware that tracked epsilon for you. Floats would be two values with epsilon being updated on each operation. Then a comparison would take epsilon into account instead of just a bit match.