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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #48307] sinc loses precision for large argumen
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Dan Sebald |
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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #48307] sinc loses precision for large arguments |
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Tue, 5 Jul 2016 05:44:47 +0000 (UTC) |
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Follow-up Comment #27, bug #48307 (project octave):
"which just shows that square-rooting algorithms are a little more numerically
accurate. With a series computation, all those multiplications accumulate
errors, or if we truncate the series then we are inherently tossing
precision."
Eh, actually it's the limited precision of the input value. Computing sqrt(3)
is analogous to exactness of the input value.
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- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #48307] sinc loses precision for large arguments, Colin Macdonald, 2016/07/05
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- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #48307] sinc loses precision for large arguments, Lachlan Andrew, 2016/07/05
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Dan Sebald <=
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- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #48307] sinc loses precision for large arguments, Marco Caliari, 2016/07/05
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #48307] sinc loses precision for large arguments, Dan Sebald, 2016/07/05
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