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Catherine Rees Lay  
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 More options Sep 7 2000, 10:48 am
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From: Catherine Rees Lay <Cather...@reeslay.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 13:35:11 +0100
Local: Thurs, Sep 7 2000 8:35 am
Subject: Re: ? How to have a FORTRAN function emulate flops for desired digits
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In article <m23djdm2l6....@vega.qnet.com>, Richard Maine
<ma...@qnet.com> writes
>Cheng Cosine <acos...@yahoo.com> writes:
>> Richard Maine wrote:
>> > Cheng Cosine <acos...@yahoo.com> writes:
>> > > I'd like to show my student about how limited significant
>> > > digits can effect the flops....
>> > I'm not sure how significant digits effect flops...
>> For example: [elided]

>Oh.  I see.  Sorry that I misunderstood your usage.  I've never seen
>the term flops used except in the context of counting the number of
>floating point operations (and most commonly as an acronym for
>Floating-point Operations Per Second).  I couldn't see how cutting the
>precision was going to show anything about the number of floating
>point operations it took to do some computation or the number that
>could be done in a second.  Yes, its clear to me that precision has an
>(important) effect on floating point operations.

>Alas, understanding what you meant by that doesn't help me come up
>with a simple solution to your request.  My comment about it being
>a lot of work still applies.

If you only need it for an example, and can choose your example
appropriately, it's relatively easy to cut off at a given number of
decimal places. For n places, multiply by 10**n, convert to integer,
divide by 10**n. If you can live with an example whose largest values
are around 1, this might help.

Catherine.
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Catherine Rees Lay


 
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