Floats, precision and probability distributions

Cleve Moler moler at mathworks.com
Thu Jul 15 17:46:30 CEST 1999


On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Gaston Gonnet wrote:

> A floating point number represents an exact rational number.
> Trying to convey precision of the value is a mistake that
> many people do when designing fp systems.  Please stay away
> from this.  Gaston.

I agree completely.  Thanks, Gaston.

  -- Cleve Moler
  moler at mathworks.com




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