24 Oct
2011
24 Oct
'11
11:38 a.m.
> THAT is already present. "float" in C
means that it is an approximation
> to 24 binary significant digits.
> It does NOT, admittedly, however, tell you that any numbers that it was
> based on were also only approximate.
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Toby Thain wrote:
Or rather, *how much* of the value is significant.
We have a discrepancy in our terminology (and might be agreeing completely
except for words)
I am using SIGNIFICANT, ACCURATE, and CORRECT as NOT being synonymous.
I maintain that you can have a value that is 24 bits SIGNIFICANTly WRONG.
How do you get an insurance adjuster to understand that a decision that
requires an accuracy of 10% can not be declared to be accurate based on
numbers that are plus or minus 30%?