Re: Motion 19.02 NO
Vincent et al,
On 11/2/2010 07:37, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2010-11-02 05:09:43 -0500, Ralph Baker Kearfott wrote:
Vincent,
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Reproducibility is a nice property, but correctness[*] (implied by
the FTIA) can be sufficient.
I agree fully with this statement.
Best regards,
Baker
[*] something one doesn't have with floating-point arithmetic, except
for applications where all the computations are exact (testing the
inexact flag would prove the result), but this is very rare.
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