Re: Status of floating point arithmetic in Java?

On Jul 31, 11:26 am, Robert Dodier <robert.dod...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What is the status of Java's (as expressed in Java 1.5 or 1.6)
rules for floating point operations? Have the rules been adjusted
since the original spec to address Kahan's remarks,
or for any other reason?

You might want to look into "strictfp".

.

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