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Subject:    Re: [TUHS] [PiDP-11] Fun with Fortran on the PiDP-11
From:       Adam Thornton <athornton () gmail ! com>
Date:       2022-03-13 4:43:51
Message-ID: 79BCFAD2-EFAD-4DAA-90F0-DED7699D61FA () gmail ! com
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> On Mar 12, 2022, at 2:02 PM, Rob Pike <r@golang.org> wrote:
> 
> Indeed. Be careful about the code Numerical Recipes if you are doing
> important numerical work. 

> For simple stuff it's fine, of course, but floating point is a
> minefield that requires expert navigation.
> 
> -rob

That's the seductive trap of floating-point numbers, isn't it?  They invite us to \
think about them as if they were the real numbers, but they are very, very much *not* \
the real numbers.  And yet, most of the time, for most applications, if you treat \
them as if they were, you get plausible results.

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