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> These calculations involve some elementary but easy to mess up algebra and some very demanding numerical calculations for which regular IEEE double precision
by epistasis 2y ago
> These calculations involve some elementary but easy to mess up algebra and some very demanding numerical calculations for which regular IEEE double precision is insufficient. If you'd like to double-check these results, be sure to use a multiple precision calculator with at least 30 significant digits of accuracy.
So you're saying my iPhone built-in calculator app is going to have problems....?
Time to whip out dc on the terminal.
- jiggawatts 2y agohttps://www.wolframalpha.com/ https://www.wolframalpha.com/
- Onavo 2y agoOr ChatGPT to output Julia code
- fambalamboni 2y ago[dead]
- thunkingdeep 2y ago[flagged]
- Onavo 2y ago> Which defaults to float64, which is IEEE precision, exactly what the article warns about…… I mean, seriously? It has native support for arbitrary precision operations. RTFM.
- thunkingdeep 2y ago[flagged]
- eq_ind 2y ago> So you're saying my iPhone built-in calculator app is going to have problems....? Your Android phone's built-in calculator app, however, will not. :^) https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3385412.3386037 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3385412.3386037