Re: [Python-Dev] Cross-platform math functions?

2006年9月05日 02:17:52 -0700

Nick Maclaren wrote:
> The word "better" is emotive and inaccurate. Such calculations are
> numerically meaningless, and merely encourage the confusion between
> consistency and correctness. There is a strong sense in which giving
> random results between -1 and 1 would be better.
I did, of course, mean more consistent (and yes, random consistent 
results would be "better" by this definition and indeed I would prefer 
that over inconsistent but more accurate results ;-)
Cheers,
 - Andreas
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