From: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
To: 19025@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19025: 24.4; precision error when adding two floats
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:42:48 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mw7x6smg.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mw7xtan2.fsf@gmail.com>
Jay Belanger writes:
>> Isn't this an artifact of the nature of floating-point arithmetic,
>> rather than an issue with Emacs per se?
>
> Yes, although it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to point out this
> issue in the Elisp documentation.
*nod* And perhaps mention Calc functions, which can work with a
specified precision?
(Assuming we can't simply link to e.g. http://floating-point-gui.de/ :-) )
Alexis.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-12 2:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-12 0:36 bug#19025: 24.4; precision error when adding two floats Kevin W. Currey
2014-11-12 1:38 ` Alexis
2014-11-12 2:28 ` Jay Belanger
2014-11-12 2:42 ` Alexis [this message]
2014-11-12 2:06 ` Stefan Monnier
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