From: gneuner2@comcast.net   
      
   On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 07:41:12 -0400, George Neuner   
    wrote:   
      
   >Floating point operations, in general, are not commutative: changing   
   >the order of evaluation of sub-expressions can change the results.   
      
   John replied:   
   >[I think you mean they're not associative.  I don't know any situations   
   >where a+b != b+a, but lots where a+(b+c) != (a+b)+c -John]   
      
   Yes, definitely "associative".  Thanks for the correction.   
   George   
      
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