[Jprogramming] Bug: +./4.57 4.34 4.44

[Hauke Rehr]

sorry, I was not sufficiently precise about my example
I meant to talk about atomic a only

if $ a is empty, then
+./ (, -) a
will work

Thanks for pointing out the lack of precision.

Am 16.05.20 um 11:46 schrieb Raul Miller:
> I was talking about the implementation.
> 
> These are different results:
> 
>     +./@(,-)4.57 4.34 4.44
> 8.88178e_16
>     +./@(,-)&.x:4.57 4.34 4.44
> 0.01
>     +./@(,-)&.:(*&1p1)4.57 4.34 4.44
> 5.65432e_16
> 
> The reason is that binary floating point cannot represent 5^_1 nor
> 5^_2 accurately.
> 
> Thanks,
> 

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