Re: Rounding error?!?!

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From: Alastair Adamson
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 15:31

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In article <1992Sep8.145018.27114@cetia.fr>, alastair@bugle.cetia.fr (Alastair Adamson) writes:
|> I wrote the following trivial program to test my disbelief.
|> It simply prints the difference between the "y" value used in
|> a "moveto" and the "y" value returned by "currentpoint".
|> I am amazed by the magnitude of the resulting value. Can this
|> simply be put down to rounding error? Does anyone have a better
|> explanation. The test was done on a LaserWriter II NTX.

Sorry, I forgot to give the result of the test!
The ouptut I got was 6.10352e-5 which I feel is a long
way off zero.

	Alastair Adamson
	alastair@cetia.fr

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