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Re: [Gcl-devel] Mandelbrot for the terminal behaves
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Michael Koehne |
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Re: [Gcl-devel] Mandelbrot for the terminal behaves |
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Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:14:21 +0200 |
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Moin Mike Thomas,
> Without going to the trouble of printing out all of the numbers, I would put
> all of these results down to roundoff and/or precision differences which, in
> iterative numerical algorithms, can alter the iterations required to meet a
> given termination condition.
it just shows that CPU floating point is neither suited for math,
nor for running bank accounts. This kind of error is common in C
or Fortran - Lisp can do better in math - the program just shows
that one could write Fortran in any language ;(
the german word " wer mist mist, mist mist " does'nt sound like
the english " those who measure crap, measure crap " but it fits
the point in computer engineering science ;)
anyway - it looks, as if GCL needs some improvement in rounding
floating point numbers. Anyone good in numerical math here ?
Bye Michael
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