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RE: logs and antilogs

• Posted by Kat <kat at kogeijin.com> Oct 30, 2002
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On 30 Oct 2002, at 14:38, Christian.CUVIER at agriculture.gouv.fr wrote:

> 
> 
> > Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:21:53 -0600
> > From: Kat <kat at kogeijin.com>
> > Subject: RE: logs and antilogs (to Kat)
> 
> > > ..... Besides, i hate to ask the
> > > computer for a math answer, and get something like 2.99999999 when i
> > > know the answer is 3.
> > > 
> > > Kat
> 
>  If you don't give a clue to computer about the kind of result you need,
> is it expected to guess? I think that's definitely a good AI problem,
> isn't it?

Well, not really. An Ai would tend to be fuzzy about the decision point, 
unreliable in the repeatabilty of the answer,, not good.

>  BTW: did any CPU manufacturer fully implement MMIX specs yet? The #E
> (epsilon) special register could be of some use in reducing these
> annoying meanless decimals. MMX2's DAZ flag doesn't solve it all, far
> from that..

I have no clue.

>  Good math software attempt to implement some form of cleverness, but
> far from perfect, and they are so expensive...

I am guessing some rounding is going on somewhere.

Kat