[PD] Some more float weirdness/fun

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> From: Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2012 1:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] Some more float weirdness/fun
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> On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 16:23 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
>> Or, beware of trying to compare floats with [==] ...
>> 
>> Lorenzo.
> 
> That's a good example of the implications inherent in floats. What you
> call a work-around is actually the correct solution. When counting, make
> sure you count with something that can precisely represented by floats,
> otherwise the error will grow with each iteration. Integers up to
> 1.6*10^7 meet that criterion.
> 
> Roman

Is this still an issue when float precision is 64-bit?

-Jonathan

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