Math problems?

Peter T. Evensen pevensen at siboneylg.com
Mon May 22 10:03:36 EDT 2006


I must admit this was on a Windows machine.  Intel is notorious for math 
issues (well maybe not notorious).  Remember the Pentium problem way back 
that had researchers up in arms?  I guess the new Mactel machines, however, 
will give the same results.  I don't have one here yet to try it on.

At 07:04 PM 5/20/2006, you wrote:

>After it was explained to me, I agreed it isn't a bug. It is how math 
>works. See Dar's explanation, which is pretty good.
>
>By the way, I just tried the original script (quoted at the top above,) 
>using Mac OS 10.4.6 and I did not get 26, I got 27 as expected. I suspect 
>it is system-related. I believe the Rev engine relies on the OS's math 
>routines to get its results.
>
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