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Nobody here besides you is talking about numbers that are less than half the minimum representable float. Edit: Oh my god now I get what you are saying. There
by SamReidHughes 12y ago
Nobody here besides you is talking about numbers that are less than half the minimum representable float.
Edit: Oh my god now I get what you are saying. There are plenty of implicit reasons why the value would end up being non-zero -- in particular, any unit-scale continuous function would have to be artificially toxic for epsilon to be smaller than the smallest float. There is no reason for the article to point out that nit.
- colanderman 12y agoWell, thanks at least for taking the time to understand my point. Though I don't consider it a "nit" when the article implies that "never round to zero" is some sort of rule (such as "round toward even LSBs" is), as opposed to a consequence of the properties of floats and the constants and functions involved.