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Dne 05/08/2015 v 23:23 Fabian Russell napsal(a):
> On Wed, 05 Aug 2015 13:14:24 -0700, noTthaTguY wrote:
> 
>> also, IEEE-758, -8-something,
>>
> 
> That's IEEE-754 2008 revision.
> 
> This is probably one of the most significant standards in
> the technical world.  Everyone should have a copy on his,
> not her, bookshelf.  (Women belong in the kitchen and not
> the laboratory.)

Prejudices are seldom attributes of a good scientist.
There is a good list of experimental observations
refuting the idea above.

> 
> But I think that OP is just another brain-dead dilettante.
> He's chasing after the "fool's gold" of precision when precision
> itself is quite meaningless.

Putting down the others does not make one smarter,
it only reveals he is not as smart as he would like to pretend.

Yes, precision itself is meaningless,
but sometimes it is very handy.
> 
> For every computation, bar none, we need to understand thoroughly
> the stability and conditioning of the algorithm utilized.
> 
Not only just algorithms,
but also of equations the algorithms try to solve
and of experimental data used for that.

As algorithms may have the best stability and conditioning
from all three of them, like in numerical weather prediction.

-- 
Poutnik ( the Czech word for a wanderer )

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            Re: nano-M-sets Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-08-06 08:16 +0200
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