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Re: Floating Point Approximations.

From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:29:14 GMT
Message-ID: <eTCOh.84994$zU1.83445@pd7urf1no> 





Bob Badour wrote:


> ...

> The epsilon would be 16 times larger for BCD floats.

> ie. 5e-7 versus 2^-25




Sorry, not hip to epsilon in this context.  Does the above correspond 
with 50 millionths versus 32 millionths, or thereabouts?



p
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