[CSC 335] Machine Epsilon in C++

Andrew J. Pounds pounds_aj at mercer.edu
Mon Sep 9 12:06:57 EDT 2019


I was asked after class about a function in C++ to determine machine
epsilon.  There is one available in the standard template library.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/numeric_limits/epsilon

I remember also being able to tease this out of the GSL and the Boost
library.


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