On SuSE 10.2/Xeon there seems to be a rounding bug for
floating-point addition:
dickinsm@weyl:~ python
Python 2.5 (r25:51908, May 25 2007, 16:14:04)
[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>a = 1e16-2.
a
999999999999999 8.0
>>a+0.999 # gives expected result
999999999999999 8.0
>>a+0.9999 # doesn't round correctly.
100000000000000 00.0
The last result here should be 999999999999999 8.0,
not 100000000000000 00.0. Is anyone else seeing this
bug, or is it just a quirk of my system?
Mark 31  1611 
Mark Dickinson schrieb:
On SuSE 10.2/Xeon there seems to be a rounding bug for
floating-point addition:
dickinsm@weyl:~ python
Python 2.5 (r25:51908, May 25 2007, 16:14:04)
[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>a = 1e16-2.
a
999999999999999 8.0
>>>a+0.999 # gives expected result
999999999999999 8.0
>>>a+0.9999 # doesn't round correctly.
100000000000000 00.0
The last result here should be 999999999999999 8.0,
not 100000000000000 00.0. Is anyone else seeing this
bug, or is it just a quirk of my system?
It is working under OSX:
(TG1044)mac-dir:~/projects/artnology/Van_Abbe_RMS/Van-Abbe-RMS deets$ python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54869, Apr 18 2007, 22:08:04)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.
Welcome to rlcompleter2 0.96
for nice experiences hit <tabmultiple times
>>a = 1e16-2.
a
999999999999999 8.0
>>a+0.9999
999999999999999 8.0
>>>
But under linux, I get the same behavior:
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 2 2007, 16:56:35)
[GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.
Welcome to rlcompleter2 0.96
for nice experiences hit <tabmultiple times
>>a = 1e16-2.
a+0.9999
100000000000000 00.0
>>>
So - seems to me it's a linux-thing. I don't know enough about
IEEE-floats to make any assumptions on the reasons for that.
Diez
On May 21, 11:38 am, Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail .comwrote:
On SuSE 10.2/Xeon there seems to be a rounding bug for
floating-point addition:
dickinsm@weyl:~ python
Python 2.5 (r25:51908, May 25 2007, 16:14:04)
[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.>>a = 1e16-2.
>a
999999999999999 8.0
>a+0.999 # gives expected result
999999999999999 8.0
>a+0.9999 # doesn't round correctly.
100000000000000 00.0
The last result here should be 999999999999999 8.0,
not 100000000000000 00.0. Is anyone else seeing this
bug, or is it just a quirk of my system?
Mark
I see it too
Mark Dickinson <di******@gmail .comwrote:
On SuSE 10.2/Xeon there seems to be a rounding bug for
floating-point addition:
dickinsm@weyl:~ python
Python 2.5 (r25:51908, May 25 2007, 16:14:04)
[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>a = 1e16-2.
a
999999999999999 8.0
>>>a+0.999 # gives expected result
999999999999999 8.0
>>>a+0.9999 # doesn't round correctly.
100000000000000 00.0
The last result here should be 999999999999999 8.0,
not 100000000000000 00.0. Is anyone else seeing this
bug, or is it just a quirk of my system?
On my system, it works:
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, May 21 2008, 18:49:26)
[GCC 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.0.2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>a = 1e16 - 2.; a
999999999999999 8.0
>>a + 0.9999
999999999999999 8.0
Marc
On May 21, 3:22*pm, Marc Christiansen <use...@solar-empire.dewrote:
On my system, it works:
*Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, May 21 2008, 18:49:26)
*[GCC 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.0.2)] on linux2
*Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.
*>>a = 1e16 - 2.; a
*99999999999999 98.0
*>>a + 0.9999
*99999999999999 98.0
Marc
Thanks for all the replies! It's good to know that it's not just
me. :-)
After a bit (well, quite a lot) of Googling, it looks as though this
might be known problem with gcc on older Intel processors: those using
an x87-style FPU instead of SSE2 for floating-point. This gcc
'bug' looks relevant: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=323
Now that I've got confirmation I'll open a Python bug report: it's
not clear how to fix this, or whether it's worth fixing, but it
seems like something that should be documented somewhere...
Thanks again, everyone!
Mark
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Dave Parker
<da********@fla mingthunder.com wrote:
On May 21, 2:44 pm, "Jerry Hill" <malaclyp...@gm ail.comwrote:
>My understand is no, not if you're using IEEE floating point.
Yes, that would explain it. I assumed that Python automatically
switched from hardware floating point to multi-precision floating
point so that the user is guaranteed to always get correctly rounded
results for +, -, *, and /, like Flaming Thunder gives. Correct
rounding and accurate results are fairly crucial to mathematical and
scientific programming, in my opinion.
--
If you're going to use every post and question about Python as an
opportunity to pimp your own pet language you're going irritate even
more people than you have already.
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Dave Parker
<da********@fla mingthunder.com wrote:
On May 21, 2:44 pm, "Jerry Hill" <malaclyp...@gm ail.comwrote:
>My understand is no, not if you're using IEEE floating point.
Yes, that would explain it. I assumed that Python automatically
switched from hardware floating point to multi-precision floating
point so that the user is guaranteed to always get correctly rounded
results for +, -, *, and /, like Flaming Thunder gives. Correct
rounding and accurate results are fairly crucial to mathematical and
scientific programming, in my opinion.
However, this is not an issue of language correctness, it's an issue
of specification and/or hardware. If you look at the given link, it
has to do with the x87 being peculiar and performing 80-bit
floating-point arithmetic even though that's larger than the double
spec. I assume this means FT largely performs floating-point
arithmetic in software rather than using the FP hardware (unless of
course you do something crazy like compiling to SW on some machines
and HW on others depending on whether you trust their functional
units).
The fact is, sometimes it's better to get it fast and be good enough,
where you can use whatever methods you want to deal with rounding
error accumulation. When accuracy is more important than speed of
number crunching (and don't argue to me that your software
implementation is faster than, or probably even as fast as, gates in
silicon) you use packages like Decimal.
Really, you're just trying to advertise your language again.
On May 21, 3:17*pm, "Chris Mellon" <arka...@gmail. comwrote:
If you're going to use every post and question about Python as an
opportunity to pimp your own pet language you're going irritate even
more people than you have already.
Actually, I've only posted on 2 threads that were questions about
Python -- this one, and the one about for-loops where the looping
variable wasn't needed. I apologize if that irritates you. But maybe
some Python users will be interested in Flaming Thunder if only to
check the accuracy of the results that they're getting from Python,
like I did on this thread. I think most people will agree that having
two independent programs confirm a result is a good thing.
On May 21, 3:19*pm, "Dan Upton" <up...@virginia .eduwrote:
The fact is, sometimes it's better to get it fast and be good enough,
where you can use whatever methods you want to deal with rounding
error accumulation.
I agree.
I also think that the precision/speed tradeoff should be under user
control -- not at the whim of the compiler writer. So, for example,
if a user says:
Set realdecimaldigi ts to 10.
then it's okay to use hardware double precision, but if they say:
Set realdecimaldigi ts to 100.
then it's not. The user should always be able to specify the
precision and the rounding mode, and the program should always provide
correct results to those specifications.
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Dave Parker
<da********@fla mingthunder.com wrote:
On May 21, 3:17 pm, "Chris Mellon" <arka...@gmail. comwrote:
>If you're going to use every post and question about Python as an
opportunity to pimp your own pet language you're going irritate even
more people than you have already.
Actually, I've only posted on 2 threads that were questions about
Python -- this one, and the one about for-loops where the looping
variable wasn't needed. I apologize if that irritates you. But maybe
some Python users will be interested in Flaming Thunder if only to
check the accuracy of the results that they're getting from Python,
like I did on this thread. I think most people will agree that having
two independent programs confirm a result is a good thing.
--
Please don't be disingenuous. You took the opportunity to pimp your
language because you could say that you did this "right" and Python
did it "wrong". When told why you got different results (an answer you
probably already knew, if you know enough about IEEE to do the
auto-conversion you alluded to) you treated it as another opportunity
to (not very subtly) imply that Python was doing the wrong thing. I'm
quite certain that you did this intentionally and with full knowledge
of what you were doing, and it's insulting to imply otherwise.
You posted previously that you wrote a new language because you were
writing what you wanted every other language to be. This is very
similar to why Guido wrote Python and I wish you the best of luck. He
was fortunate enough that the language he wanted also happened to be
the language that lots of other people wanted. You don't seem to be so
fortunate, and anti-social behavior on newsgroups dedicated to other
languages is unlikely to change that. You're not the first and you
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