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Re: Avoiding roundoff errors in calculations?

• To: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>
• Subject: Re: Avoiding roundoff errors in calculations?
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:56:47 -0700
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Roger L. Costello wrote:

> What are your thoughts on this?  What techniques do people use to avoid
> introducing roundoff errors?  /Roger

Use FORTRAN, it supports REAL numbers, it says so right in the syntax :)

I'm curious; what applications require more precision than IEEE double? -Tim

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