SuperCollider FP succeeds where Google fails

[James Harkins-2]

So there's a "Google Fail" making the rounds... search Google for
"399999999999999 - 399999999999998" and it will confidently tell you
the answer is 0.

SC integer arithmetic does the same thing (odd b/c I thought it
dropped most significant bits, but it seems to drop LSBs...?) but
anyway... our floats are better than their floats!

In SC:
399999999999999.0 - 399999999999998.0
--> 1

64 bits to the rescue!

hjh


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James Harkins /// dewdrop world
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"Come said the Muse,
Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted,
Sing me the universal."  -- Whitman

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