Re: Study about accuracy of statistical software, incl. Octave

[Jason Riedy]

And Jaroslav Hajek writes:
> But what is the correct answer? Just writing those numbers into Octave
> introduces an error ~ 3e-17. I *don't* expect the "correct" answer is
> 1e7 + 0.2. You can't expect Octave to guess your actual numbers.

I do expect better than a single precision result from std(), however.
I'll try to poke at what happens (esp. using DNRM2) this week, although
I'd love for someone to beat me to it...

Jason