27 Sep
2011
27 Sep
'11
12:36 p.m.
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:23:20 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
I think it's more than reasonable to expect
[0.1,0.2..0.5] == [0.1,0.2,0.3,0.4,0.5]
and that would make everyone happy, wouldn't it?
[0.1,0.2..0.5] isn't the problem. The problem is coming up with something that not only works for [0.1,0.2..0.5], but also works for [0.1,0.2..1234567890.5]. A good rule of thumb: For every proposal that purports to eliminate having to explicitly take into consideration the limited precision of floating-point representations, there exists a trivial example that breaks that proposal. -Steve Schafer