[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

Steven Schweda sms.antinode at gmail.com
Sat Jan 28 18:36:43 EST 2023


> But it can be difficult to determine upfront what a good value
> for small it with absolute if one does not know the magnitude of
> the numbers up front.

   The magnitude of the numbers might not matter as much as the number
of bits in the mantissa.

   Everything's complicated, but a bad method (like, say, comparing
rounded values) is still a bad method.  (I claim.)



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