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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (rc7) now available
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 17:42:26 -0200
> It is not broken yet produces results which are very close to zero which is
> all you can expect with floating point calculations.
As Tony pointed out, we should expect from any calculation (not
only floating-point ones) as much precision as it is possible to
represent. Errors only arise when the correct anwer does not have an
exact representation.
-- Roberto
