Rounding error

Torbjörn Granlund tg at gmplib.org
Wed Sep 8 09:21:05 UTC 2021


Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann at inria.fr> writes:

  Of course you can add say 100 guard bits, then the probability to get an
  incorrect rounding is about 2^-100...

You're joking, but this was sort-of my thinking when designing mpf!

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