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Re: [Help-gsl] Approximate Comparison of Floating Point Numbers
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Brian Gough |
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Re: [Help-gsl] Approximate Comparison of Floating Point Numbers |
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Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:44:59 +0100 |
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At Tue, 2 Jun 2009 13:34:39 +0530,
Awhan Patnaik wrote:
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> With reference to int *gsl_fcmp* (double x, double y, double
> epsilon) is there a default choice of epsilon that will work for
> ``almost" all situations ?
Hello,
I think this really depends on the context, there is a discussion in
Knuth which is the starting point and is worth checking out.
> Is there an IRC channel where GSL geeks hang out ?
I don't think so, I don't use IRC myself, this mailing list is the
main place to ask questions.
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