POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Finite accuracy computing : Re: Finite accuracy computing Server Time
19 Nov 2024 03:26:43 EST (-0500)
  Re: Finite accuracy computing  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 9 May 2002 12:10:41
Message: <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?

    Thorsten

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