CAS precision
10-12-2015, 07:19 PM
Post: #1
 Han Senior Member Posts: 1,810 Joined: Dec 2013
CAS precision
Does a CAS program behave like built-in CAS commands in the way it handles floating point numbers and intermediate results?

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10-13-2015, 06:44 AM
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 parisse Senior Member Posts: 1,051 Joined: Dec 2013
RE: CAS precision
Yes, it should.
10-16-2015, 03:16 PM (This post was last modified: 10-16-2015 03:21 PM by Han.)
Post: #3
 Han Senior Member Posts: 1,810 Joined: Dec 2013
RE: CAS precision
Does using return(param) within a subroutine truncate any digits? One of the issues I have found is that matrix multiplication (row vector times column vector) gives me a slightly different result than calling a subroutine that does the multiplication and returns the inner product (the former is more accurate than the latter it seems). That is, t:=b*v; seems more accurate in the long run (which I use later on to for something else) than t:=inprod(b,v); where inprod(); is a cas routine whose code is:

Code:
inprod(b,v):= BEGIN   local d,k;   local s;   d:=dim(v);   s:=0;   d:=d[1];   for k from 1 to d do     s:=s + b[1,k]*v[k,1];   end;   return(s); END;

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10-17-2015, 04:05 PM
Post: #4
 parisse Senior Member Posts: 1,051 Joined: Dec 2013
RE: CAS precision
This might happen because the intermediate conversions double <-> giac::gen are not exactly the same in both processes. Every time a double is stored in a giac::gen, the 5 less significant bits are replaced by the type field, and in the other direction the 5 less significant bits are set to 0.
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