Subject: comutational precision: removing round-off errors.

From: Iraj Daizadeh <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 10:25:56 -0700

Hello.

If one takes 625 and divides this number by, lets say, 5 on a computer
one may get one of
two numbers that look like: 125.000000000000000001 and
124.4999999999999999 .

Is this true? and, if so, how does one remove possible rounding errors
produced when
this occurs during lets say integration....

Thanks,

Iraj Daizadeh, Ph.D.
Patent Liaison
Statistical Genomics
Genset Corporation
[email-masked]