Re: Possreps and numeric types
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:50:24 GMT
Message-ID: <4IGOh.16800$PV3.173260_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:50:24 GMT
Message-ID: <4IGOh.16800$PV3.173260_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>I admit I used epsilon somewhat sloppily and not necessarily with the
>>exact meaning used when discussing a particular floating-point
>>implementation. I used it to mean the distance to the representable
>>predecessor or successor of any representable rational value.
>
>
> That is incorrect. It is per
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_epsilon
> In a floating-point system, epsilon is the smallest number such that
> 1 + epsilon > 1
> [snip]