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   Elynn to All   
   Re: question on Spacing of floating poin   
   21 Apr 17 13:04:21   
   
   bf9e72eb   
   From: beya.elynn@yandex.com   
      
   > On 19.04.2017 09:54, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:   
   > >   
   > > does anyone Maple expert know where there is small   
   > > difference between Maple and others in this value?   
   > >   
   > > All on windows, all 64 bit   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > 0.222044604925031308e-15 ---> Maple 2016.2 using   
   > evalhf(DBL_EPSILON);   
   > > 0.2220446049250313e-15   ---> Matlab using format   
   > long; eps('double')   
   > > 0.2220446049250313*10^-15 --> Mathematica   
   > $MachineEpsilon   
   > > 0.2220446049250313e-15  ---> python   
   >   np.finfo(float).eps   
   >   
   > The number is 1/2^52 anyway where Maple uses 18   
   > places for   
   > decimal output of 'evalhf', the others show 16 places   
      
   Thank you for your explaination.   
      
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