Message 106824 - Python tracker

Message106824

Author	belopolsky
Recipients	belopolsky, mark.dickinson, mcherm, rhettinger, stutzbach, tim.peters, vstinner
Date	2010-06-01.03:38:55
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Mark> (2) seems like overkill to me. I agree, however it would be interesting to figure out when accumulated errors can produce an inaccurate result. ISTM that leftover is the sum of up to 7 doubles each between 0 and 1 which is then rounded to the nearest integer. I don't see how accumulated error can exceed 1 and affect the result.

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Mark> (2) seems like overkill to me.

I agree, however it would be interesting to figure out when accumulated errors can produce an inaccurate result.  ISTM that leftover is the sum of up to 7 doubles each between 0 and 1 which is then rounded to the nearest integer.  I don't see how accumulated error can exceed 1 and affect the result.

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Date	User	Action	Args
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