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From: Marcin Dalecki <martin@dalecki.de>
To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Cc: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>,
	Uros Bizjak <uros@kss-loka.si>,
	Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>,
	gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sine and Cosine Accuracy
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 18:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85C33105-4702-4A41-991A-45F3E1CC7004@dalecki.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050527133651.GA86424@dspnet.fr.eu.org>


On 2005-05-27, at 15:36, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> Floating point values represent intervals,

This is mathematically wrong. The basic concept is that the
calculations domain as given by floating point numbers is used
to *model* the real number calculus. Certain constrains apply of course.
But there isn't any concept of representation here. Just a mapping.

> and when the interval size is way bigger than 2pi any value in [-1,1]
> is a perfectably acceptable answer for sin or cos.

???

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-27 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-26 23:31 Uros Bizjak
2005-05-26 23:52 ` Paul Koning
2005-05-26 23:56 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2005-05-26 23:57   ` Steven Bosscher
2005-05-27 15:09   ` Olivier Galibert
2005-05-27 15:28     ` Vincent Lefevre
2005-05-27 18:27     ` Marcin Dalecki [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-28  6:42 Menezes, Evandro
2005-05-28  4:32 Menezes, Evandro
2005-05-28  5:02 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-28 10:44 ` Gary Funck
2005-05-27  0:54 Menezes, Evandro
2005-05-27  0:54 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-27 12:42 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-27  0:39 Menezes, Evandro
2005-05-27  0:54 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-26 23:59 Menezes, Evandro
2005-05-27 15:19 ` Vincent Lefevre
2005-05-26 18:38 Morten Welinder
2005-05-26 20:58 ` Andrew Haley
2005-05-26 17:53 Morten Welinder
2005-05-26 18:10 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-26 18:22   ` Dave Korn
2005-05-26 18:49     ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-26 19:28       ` Dave Korn
2005-05-26 16:05 Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-26 16:09 ` Andrew Haley
2005-05-26 16:33   ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-26 17:14     ` Andrew Haley
2005-05-26 17:01   ` Paolo Carlini
2005-05-26 17:23 ` Richard Henderson
2005-05-26 17:24   ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-26 17:27     ` Paul Koning
2005-05-26 17:27       ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-26 17:29         ` Dave Korn
2005-05-26 17:37           ` David Daney
2005-05-26 17:56             ` Dave Korn
2005-05-26 17:40           ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-26 18:12             ` Paul Koning
2005-05-26 18:32               ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-26 18:50                 ` Paul Koning
2005-05-26 19:14                   ` Andrew Pinski
2005-05-26 19:35                     ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-29  6:22                   ` Geoffrey Keating
2005-05-31 14:34                     ` Paul Koning
2005-05-31 22:58                       ` Geoff Keating
2005-05-29 12:07                 ` Roger Sayle
2005-05-30 15:34                   ` Vincent Lefevre
2005-05-29  2:22         ` Kai Henningsen
2005-05-29 18:16         ` Marc Espie
2005-05-29 20:58           ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-05-30 15:19             ` Marc Espie
2005-05-30 17:26               ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-30 17:18                 ` Marc Espie
2005-05-30 18:11                   ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-30 17:31               ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-31  3:10                 ` chris jefferson
2005-05-31 12:17                   ` Andrew Haley
2005-05-31 12:46                   ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-31 13:02                     ` Andrew Haley
2005-05-31 13:34                 ` Vincent Lefevre
2005-05-30 15:19             ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2005-05-30 15:35             ` Bernhard R. Link
2005-05-30 18:59               ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-30 19:16               ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-05-30 19:17                 ` Bernhard R. Link
2005-05-30 19:54                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-05-30 20:04                     ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2005-05-26 17:35       ` Kevin Handy
2005-05-26 17:41         ` Paul Koning
2005-05-26 20:26           ` Joseph S. Myers
2005-05-26 21:15     ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2005-05-26 21:17       ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-26 23:25         ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2005-05-27  0:18           ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-27  0:54             ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2005-05-27 11:29           ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-05-27  9:36         ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-05-27 10:48       ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-05-26 21:33     ` Richard Henderson
2005-05-27  0:05       ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-27  0:43         ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2005-05-27  0:54           ` Scott Robert Ladd
2005-05-28 11:26             ` Russ Allbery
2005-05-27 13:56     ` Vincent Lefevre
2005-05-29  3:36   ` Kai Henningsen

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