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Re: Question about Range class


From: Robert A. Macy
Subject: Re: Question about Range class
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:09:31 -0800

Gotta watch those absolute comments...

As an accuracy test I tried 
  sqrt(2)*sqrt(2)-2

My TI calculator came back with...
  1e-11
...error

octave came back with...
  4.44e-16
...interesting.  

          - Robert -

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:40:43 +0100
 Miroslaw Kwasniak <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 07:24:00AM -0800, Robert A. Macy
> wrote:
> > Pedro,
> > 
> > In octave, two arguments...
> >  z = (1:100)/10
>         ^
>         10 
> > or, three arguments...
> >  Z = (1:0.1:10)
> > ...give identical z arrays, 
> 
> No, it's almost impossible
> 
> max(abs(z-Z))
> ans =  1.7764e-15
> 
> ;)



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