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_at_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 Received on Thu Mar 29 2007 - 01:29:14 CEST

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