Re: what's the ULP in Octave

Victor Norton via Help-octave <[email protected]> Tue, 1 Dec 2020 16:01:31 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.octave.general
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Try this
  octave> x = 1; eps = 1;
  octave> while(x + eps > x)
  > eps /= 10;
  > end
  octave> eps
  eps =    1.0000e-16
Is this the answer?


> On Dec 1, 2020, at 7:55 AM, 康 珊 <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> I wonder what's the ULP(unit of least precision) for those double operations such as pow in octave.

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