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Re: Numerical accuracy/precision - this is a bug or a feature?

From "slawek" <slawek@host.pl>
Newsgroups comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
Subject Re: Numerical accuracy/precision - this is a bug or a feature?
Date 2011-07-12 11:01 +0000
Organization Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc.
Message-ID <ivh9hh$lom$1@smc.vnet.net> (permalink)
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Użytkownik "DrMajorBob" <btreat1@austin.rr.com> napisał w wiadomości grup 
dyskusyjnych:iv6hgo$sch$1@smc.vnet.net...
> Binary storage is not mathematically required, but the result is MUCH
> faster code. Perhaps, at some point, we'll abandon this trade-off when
> computers are so fast that the gain in speed isn't worth the confusion.
> But that day isn't here, yet.

BCD - Binary Coded Decimals. 

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Re: Numerical accuracy/precision - this is a bug or a feature? DrMajorBob <btreat1@austin.rr.com> - 2011-07-08 09:09 +0000
  Re: Numerical accuracy/precision - this is a bug or a feature? "slawek" <slawek@host.pl> - 2011-07-12 11:01 +0000
    Re: Numerical accuracy/precision - this is a bug or a feature? Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu> - 2011-07-13 07:17 +0000

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