From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shriramana Sharma Subject: Re: Integer arithmetic vs double precision arithmetic Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 05:05:42 +0530 Message-ID: <200603270505.42464.samjnaa@gmail.com> References: <200603262044.37068.samjnaa@gmail.com> <200603262154.28395.samjnaa@gmail.com> <17447.390.978690.438069@cerise.gclements.plus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <17447.390.978690.438069@cerise.gclements.plus.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linux C Programming List 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"? -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.51 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-03-27 W13-1 UTC+0530