needing help with: Floating point error

[Vincent Lefevre]

Hi,

On 2009-06-26 09:47:31 -0300, jmonetti at uncu.edu.ar wrote:
> The problem I found that the program get a
> Floating Point in iteration 29 (with my computer/
> arquitectura/compiler/...).

MPFR can handle such errors (exceptions). For instance, you can
cleanly detect them and restart the computation with more precision
(if your inputs allow that).

You should also do an error anlysis, but this can sometimes be
difficult.

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