[CSC 335] Homework 6 Problem 1 Pounds' Question

[Andrew J. Pounds]

Interesting -- the compiler is no longer signaling a NAN or an underflow 
-- but just going to zero.


Where do you stop "trusting" the numbers"?  What is the limit for double 
precision floating point?


For this problem you can report where you no longer trust the numbers 
--- and forget about the NAN because apparently that was changed in the 
compiler.



On 11/17/23 18:27, Joseph Kelly Jackson wrote:
> Dear Dr. Pounds,
>
>       I couldn't get any NaN values from the code that you sent out in 
> the email, however the numbers did keep going until all of the 
> determinants were simply zero. Should I consider the iteration number 
> in which the determinant became 0 to be the stopping point? I am just 
> confused because a lot of the calculated determinants are down to 
> hundreds of decimal places which doesn't really make sense for double 
> precision values (atleast I don't think so anyway.) I also made my own 
> version of the code and got the exact same results.
-- 
*/Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D. /* (pounds_aj at mercer.edu)
/Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science/
/Director of the Computational Science Program/
/Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207 (478) 301-5627/
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