Re: [boost] [Math/nextafter] A question of naming functions...

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-30 07:42:37

Hervé Brönnimann wrote:
> floatdistance(lhs, rhs)?

Maybe :-)

> And as someone noted earlier, it should be the number of gaps, or
> rather: the number of times nextafter needs to  be applied to lhs in
> order to obtain rhs.  Otherwise, the "number of representations
> between lhs and rhs" is 0 in two cases, when rhs==lhs or when rhs ==
> nextafter(lhs).

Yep, that's what it *does*, it's figuring out how to explain it correctly!

Thanks, John.