Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63a.0509130724450.2610@homer23.u.washington.edu>
Date: 2005-09-13T14:27:19Z
From: Thomas Lumley
Subject: Floating-point arithmetic
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.050913092324.Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
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,
<snip>
>
> 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