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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 14:14:30 -0800 (PST)
From: "Alex Matulich" <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Gary,
> The StandardError function in TS2k suffers from the same error as many
> of TS's stat functions: they do subtractions of two large
> numbers to get a small result, which combined with TS's single-
> precision math results in horrifically inaccurate results or
> divisions by zero. Obviously TRAD's programmers never took a
> basic computational-accuracy course.
I always wondered why the calculations are single-precision. That always
seemed stupid to me.
Speed.
plus most programmers are mathematically incompetent.
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