Subject: Re: voltage & current program
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:57:19 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <IZidnW7eHviy1bXbnZ2dnUVZ_rjinZ2d@speakeasy.net>
mark.hoemmen@gmail.com <mark.hoemmen@gmail.com> wrote:
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| rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) wrote:
| > [And if you're not going to use "=", then
| > you would need an additional :EPSILON keyword to specify the acceptable
| > error in the comparison, and that's just getting ugly...]
| 
| Well, you only need to fix "EPSILON" once and then you compute
| relative error for everything.  There's no need to specify a different
| EPSILON for each operation.
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That statement would have gotten an "F" in my college's
Numerical Methods class. Acceptable relative error *does*
depend on context...


-Rob

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