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- Subject: floating point precision
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.213615.28011@cs.yale.edu>
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- Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:36:15 GMT
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- How can one specify the floating point precision of a numerical
- routine? I was writing a LU-decomposition for solving linear equations.
- To see the effect of precision on accuracy, I want to run the code in
- short-float, double-float, and long-float. Is there a simple way to
- do this short of explicitly declaring every single variable in the
- program and all the functions it call? I am using Lucid.
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