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Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve

From jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve
Date 2015-11-13 23:35 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:33:45 -0800, Double-A wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> I wrote an amortization application in Quick Basic ...
>> Also I noticed other amortization schedule applications
>> being sold would occasionally output one penny errors
>> in their schedules.  These could add up larger errors
>> in the totals.
>>
> 
> Amortization is a good example because it involves interest
> rate calculations, and these calculations are notorious
> for CATASTROPHIC CANCELLATION.

There is a standard for doing financial calculations and it is not
an IEEE standard.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 19:43 +0000
  Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-13 19:59 +0000
    Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 20:16 +0000
      Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-13 21:02 +0000
        Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 22:32 +0000
          Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-13 23:32 +0000
            Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 23:52 +0000
              Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-14 00:06 +0000
  Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 21:14 +0000
    Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 13:18 -0800
    Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-13 23:33 +0000
  Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2015-11-13 13:33 -0800
    Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 22:04 +0000
      Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-13 23:35 +0000
        Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 23:54 +0000
          Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-14 00:15 +0000
  Re: IEEE754 compliance is the _default_. Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-14 02:08 +0000
    Re: IEEE754 compliance is the _default_. GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-11-13 19:30 -0700

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