Floating-point arithmetic
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
A recent exchange on the 'octave' list led to the following paper being cited, which I had not met before: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic, by David Goldberg,
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So I'm writing to bring it to the notice of R users who may not have come across it. (And also, maybe, to pre-empt that question that some of you may have been thinking of asking ... ).
Since the paper is already linked from the relevant R FAQ question, there surely wouldn't be any of these ;-) -thomas