[Openmcl-devel] Floating point precision

[Sudhir Shenoy]

I have actually gone with your (and Brian's) earlier suggestion of  
shadowing all the math functions.

Editing the int constants to single-float format does not solve the  
problem since it would return the same results as passing an int itself.

Thanks
Sudhir

On Jan 21, 2009, at 11:23 PM, Alexander Repenning wrote:

> A happy compromise may be to set *read-default-float-format* to  
> double and to edit your int constants to be in single float format,  
> e.g., "2.0" At least you would not have to append the "d0" to each  
> constant value which I agree would look a tad ugly.
>
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> On Jan 17, 2009, at 7:18 PM, Sudhir Shenoy wrote:
>
>>  I now
>> have to go through the code and ensure that all constants are affixed
>> with 'd0' even where they are exact integers because of the danger of
>> intermediate results losing precision if these constants are passed  
>> to
>> math functions ...
>
> Prof. Alexander Repenning
>
> University of Colorado
> Computer Science Department
> Boulder, CO 80309-430
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