Re: [NTLK] Good Scientific Caculator for MP2100

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_home.com)
Date: Thu Sep 06 2001 - 15:45:26 EDT


at the temporal coordinates: 9/7/01 3:34 AM, the entity known as Thomas
Cherry at jceaser_at_mac.com conveyed the following:

> I found it once when using the calculator, when you call one of the math
> functions from the drop down selector on the right side, the answer is off
> by .00000000001 or something like that

Just sounds like normal "fuzz"... As long as you've programmed defensively
(i.e., you use alternate methods when small arguments are present) so that
cosines, etc. of tiny values don't cause loss of precision problems, it
should be just fine.

- Eric.

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