Floating Point Arithmetic

[Anton Rang]

In article <14366 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>The real reason for avoiding floats is that unless you already know all
>about this stuff, your computations may produce garbage due to the lack
>of precision attained using single precision.

  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.
(Not a reason not to use 'double' anyway, of course.)

	Anton
   
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