Re: FPU, i386

Jakob Østergaard (jakob@unthought.net)
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:31:07 +0200


On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:40:48AM -0500, Jesse Pollard wrote:
...
> Been there done that... My solution (based on the problem I was working
> in) was to multiply both sides by the 10^<number of siginificant digits
> of the problem set>. Taking the simplistic approach:
>
> if (int(1/h * 100) == int(5.0 * 100))

The common solution I've seen and used is
if (fabs(a-b) < e)

Set e according to your needs (1E-4 is good enough for many practical purposes,
1E-12 is better for my personal gut-feeling in many problems, 1E-16 and beyond
does not make any sense what so ever (for double precision))

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