RE: [boost] Re: Floating Point comparisons

From: Fernando Cacciola (fcacciola_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-18 08:13:32

----- Original Message -----
From: Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>; <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 10:32 PM
Subject: RE: [boost] Re: Floating Point comparisons

> At 10:57 AM 12/14/2001, Fernando Cacciola wrote:
>
>  >I recently found these papers on the web.
>  >I have only scanned them, not actually read them, but I think they can
> help
>  >us understand the issues about FP rounding.
>  >
>  >"Rounding Near Zero", U. Kulisch.
>  >"From Rounding Error Estimation to Automatic Correction with Automatic
>  >Differentiation", P. Langlois.
>  >"The Improbability of Probabilistic Error Analyses for numerical
>  >computations", W. Kahan.
>  >"Roundoff degrades an Idealized Cantilever", W. Kahan.
>
> There is an edited reprint available of Goldberg's well-known paper "What
> Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating Point Arithmetic"
>
>
http://docs.sun.com/htmlcoll/coll.648.2/iso-8859-1/NUMCOMPGD/ncg_goldberg.ht
ml
>
> --Beman
>
Thanks,

(Though, I gave a link to the index page where that particular document is
available on a previous link)

This is still the best reference on the subject that I know of.

Fernando Cacciola
Sierra s.r.l.
fcacciola_at_[hidden]
www.gosierra.com