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From: Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com>
To: Linux C Programming List <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Integer arithmetic vs double precision arithmetic
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 05:05:42 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603270505.42464.samjnaa@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17447.390.978690.438069@cerise.gclements.plus.com>

Monday, 27 March 2006 02:33 samaye, Glynn Clements alekhiit:

> Floating-point is meant for the situation where you want a constant
> relative error rather than a constant absolute error. For timescales,
> a constant absolute error is usually more useful.

Could you clarify that a bit? How do you mean "constant relative error" as 
against "constant absolute error"?

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-26 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-26 15:14 Integer arithmetic vs double precision arithmetic Shriramana Sharma
2006-03-26 16:12 ` Steve Graegert
2006-03-26 16:24   ` Shriramana Sharma
2006-03-26 21:03     ` Glynn Clements
2006-03-26 23:35       ` Shriramana Sharma [this message]
2006-03-27  1:02         ` Glynn Clements
2006-03-27  8:32           ` Shriramana Sharma
2006-03-27 17:13             ` Glynn Clements
2006-03-26 16:12 ` Glynn Clements

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