"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
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> Chris B <nom### [at] nomailcom> wrote:
>> But a result which is not necessarily the same each time you calculate 
>> the
>> answer using the same dataset as input.
>
>  You should never rely on getting an exact result when calculating with
> floating point numbers anyways.
>

No, but, a computer that doesn't give the same results when you run an 
algorithm twice in a row would be hell to debug. So you'd expect 'if 
(1/3=1/3)' to always give the same answer, not true half the time and false 
the other half.

Regards,
Chris B.

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