[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

[Dave Froble]

On 1/28/2023 6:36 PM, Steven Schweda wrote:
>> 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.)
>

And you'd be 100% correct.  It is the amount of the difference that matters.

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