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This was sent privately. I decided to answer to the list:
> What is the antidote for floating point errors?
About all that can be done as a software user is to correct errors in data
files. However, computer programmers can avoid most overflow errors by
testing data values to see they are reasonable before performing arithmetic
operations that will result in errors. That pretesting is called "sanity
testing" by programmers. Sanity testing takes a little extra programming
time, but well-written programs are full of it.
-Bob Brickey
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