Re: [xml-dev] Avoiding roundoff errors in calculations?

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Tim Bray <>
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"Roger L. Costello" <>
Date
2003-08-29T19:56:47Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Avoiding roundoff errors in calculations?
Roger L. Costello wrote:

> What are your thoughts on this?  What techniques do people use to avoid
> introducing roundoff errors?  /Roger

Use FORTRAN, it supports REAL numbers, it says so right in the syntax :)

I'm curious; what applications require more precision than IEEE double? -Tim