POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Finite accuracy computing : Re: Finite accuracy computing Server Time
6 Aug 2024 06:17:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Finite accuracy computing  
From: Gleb
Date: 10 May 2002 05:35:02
Message: <3cdb9446$1@news.povray.org>
"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
news:3cda9f81@news.povray.org...
> In article <3cda84cd@news.povray.org> , "Gleb" <gk1### [at] sotonacuk> wrote:
>
> > Calculations start with both p1 and p2 = 0.01,
> > and (under Win32) stop at step 187 when the difference
> > between them(expected to be always 0) is more then 1.3!
> > What do you think about it?
>
> Are you surprised about this when using floating-point numbers?
>
Both yes and no


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