Floating Point Arithmetic

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <RANG.90Nov8132409 at nexus.cs.wisc.edu> rang at cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes:
>  Of course, it's just as easy to write code which will give you
>double-precision garbage as it is to get single-precision garbage.

I disagree.  Except for special, heavily iterative algorithms that would
probably not be attempted by the naive, generally double-precision
arithmetic produces usable answers more often than single-precision would.