On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 10:21:53AM -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:
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> > On 2019-12-09, at 9:12 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi David,
> > 
> >> On Dec 7, 2019, at 7:52 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> ???I'm not sure if this test has any value, but if it is VM issue that
> >> may come back, then we may as well have coverage.
> >> 
> >> Or is it the case that a VM with this issue is just going to completely
> >> fail all of the float tests anyway?
> > 
> > I would think that any VM that incorrectly computes 0.1 = 1.1 is going to fail many many tests.
> 
> But it's unlikely to be able to correctly work out how many... So at least senior management will be happy ;-)
>

Reports to senior management are expected to be delivered with high
precision and low accuracy, so floating point calculations would be
entirely inappropriate for that use case.

Dave