Re: Motion 19.02 NO
On 2010-11-01 07:17:33 -0500, Ralph Baker Kearfott wrote:
> > 2. when the midpoint of a (real) interval is exactly in the middle
> > between two machine numbers, then mid-rad presentation is not unique.
>
> Actually, that's an interesting objection to mid-rad. I find it
> analogous to the problem of defining rounding to nearest when
> the exact result is the midpoint between two machine numbers. If
> we want reproducibility, we would specify it, but it wouldn't matter
> how we would specify it, just that we did specify it.
Users of mid-rad may prefer performance over reproducibility.
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