From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-12-26T23:43:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Trig value errors

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> wrote:

> Floating-point can represent smaller increments the closer you get to
> zero. So values of 0 +/- dX can be represented much more accurately than
> 1 +/- dX.

Strictly speaking they can be represented much more precisely.

Precision and accuracy are different things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision


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