
16 Nov
2009
16 Nov
'09
4:33 p.m.
Jonathan Franklin wrote:
In my application domain, I'm really not that interested in numerical instability due to floating point imprecision. For my use-cases, a few things work fine w/ single precision, and double precision works well for everything else.
Yes, but for something like boolean operations, this means it works sometimes and completely fails at others. I can see the logic of accepting the uncertainty and hoping for the best in practice, but it does beg the question whether Boost should contain such libraries. There are many buggy floating point boolean op libraries out there. Why do we need another? Regards, Brandon