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- From: HUSFELD@usmv01.usm.uni-muenchen.de (Husfeld, Dirk)
- Subject: Re: Planetary Ephemeris Routines?
- In-Reply-To: cflatter@nrao.edu's message of Fri, 22 Jan 93 18: 26:48 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.210019.11460@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
- Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
- Organization: University Observatory Munich, FRG
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:00:19 GMT
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- In <1993Jan22.182648.7390@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> cflatter@nrao.edu writes:
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- >> <some cited lines about numerical precision deleted>
- > Unfortunately his discussion of numerical precision is very outdated. Almost
- > anything you are likely to have on your desk these days will maintain much
- > better precision than Meeus would lead you to believe (most machines will
- > only lose one bit of precision in subtraction no matter how close the numbers
- > being subtracted for example).
- >
- > Chris Flatters
- > cflatter@nrao.edu
- >
- Hmmm. If you subtract two numbers that differ by only the last bit in their
- binary representation, then your result only has one bit of precision.
- So I think your above words were not very carefully chosen. Could you
- elaborate on what you mean?
-
- Regards,
- Dirk Husfeld
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