From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Mar 20 12:01:06 1998
Subject: floating point accuracy
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: schloegl at fdpmial05 dot tu-graz dot ac dot at
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 11:57:46 -0600

On 20-Mar-1998, Alois SCHLOEGL <schloegl at fdpmial05 dot tu-graz dot ac dot at> wrote:

| I've found that a matlab-program behaves differently on different
| platforms. It seems to me to be a "bug".

If you are interested in knowing about the characteristics of your
systems floating point hardware, you should probably consider running
the paranoia program available from netlib:

  http://www.netlib.org/paranoia/index.html

jwe