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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: inconsistent for() and while() behavior when using floating point
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On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 08:38:15PM +0300, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
> 
> When you perform floating point computations , it may be useful
> to ...

read David Goldberg's paper, "What Every Computer Scientist Should
Know about Floating-Point Arithmetic."

http://www.validlab.com/

-- 
Steve