Re: small numerical differences in floating point result between

Merrill & Michele wrote:
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> Does the Standard have anything to say about machine epsilon?  MPJ

Which Standard do you mean to ask about?  You cross-posted to three
different language newsgroups.  The C++ Standard says that the member
'epsilon' of 'std::numeric_limits' returns the difference between 1
and the least value greater than 1 that is representable.  It does not
say specify the actual value returned from 'epsilon'.  The C Standard
does give the maximum acceptable values of 'FLT_EPSILON', 'DBL_EPSILON'
and 'LDBL_EPSILON', but your implementation is free to provide its own,
smaller values.  And I have no idea about the Fortran Standard.

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