Re: [Gcl-devel] Mandelbrot for the terminal behaves

[Michael Koehne]

Moin Mike Thomas,

> Without going to the trouble of printing out all of the numbers, I would put
> all of these results down to roundoff and/or precision differences which, in
> iterative numerical algorithms, can alter the iterations required to meet a
> given termination condition.

  it just shows that CPU floating point is neither suited for math,
  nor for running bank accounts. This kind of error is common in C
  or Fortran - Lisp can do better in math - the program just shows
  that one could write Fortran in any language ;(

  the german word " wer mist mist, mist mist " does'nt sound like
  the english " those who measure crap, measure crap " but it fits
  the point in computer engineering science ;)

  anyway - it looks, as if GCL needs some improvement in rounding
  floating point numbers. Anyone good in numerical math here ?

Bye Michael
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