Fun with floating point
Kenny via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sun Feb 8 01:19:06 PST 2015
> For example, according to IEEE-754 specification if we work
> with 32bit floating point numbers (floats in D) then the
> following pseudo code prints 'Works'.
>
> F32 f = 16777216.0f;
> F32 f2 = f + 0.1f;
> if is_the_same_binary_presentation(f, f2)
> Print("Works");
>
> As I understand D does not guarantee this. Please confirm if
> it's correct.
One clarification:
In D the following should always print 'Works'
float f = 16777216.0f;
float f2 = f + 1.0f;
if (f == f2)
writeln("Works");
I asked more about this case:
float f = 16777216.0f;
if (f == f + 1.0f)
writeln("Works");
Although all operands are 32bit FP the result is not guaranteed
to be equal to the result for FP32 computations as specified by
IEEE-754.
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