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It is obvious that
|0.1234-0.123| = 0.0004
however, the following Matlab result is a little bit different!
>> 0.1234-0.123
ans =
3.999999999999976e-04
I think this happens because the IEEE754 conversion of 0.1234 and 0.123 have infinite digits.
Does anyone have more explanation?
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‘I think this happens because the IEEE754 conversion of 0.1234 and 0.123 have infinite digits.’
Correct.
‘Does anyone have more explanation?’
I doubt it. Your explanation about covers it. (The relevant MATLAB documentation is in Floating-Point Numbers.)
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EDIT — (12 Nov 2022 at 11:44)
‘In double precision we can trust on about 15 decimal digits.In double precision we can trust on about 15 decimal digits.’
format long
FPP = eps
FPP = 1/eps
FPPlog2 = log2(eps)
FPPlog2 = log2(1/eps)
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"... the IEEE754 conversion of 0.1234 and 0.123 have infinite digits ..."
Not sure what you mean by this statement. Neither of these numbers can be represented exactly in IEEE double precision floating point which of course uses a finite number of binary bits. Maybe you mean an exact conversion of these specific decimal numbers to binary would require an infinite number of binary bits?
The exact binary-to-decimal conversions of the numbers that are stored (the closest representable values to the decimal numbers above) are:
fprintf('%.56f',0.1234)
fprintf('%.52f',0.123)
fprintf('%.56f',0.1234 - 0.123)
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Walter Roberson
2022-11-8
编辑：Walter Roberson
2022-11-8
IEEE 754 effectively uses INTEGER/PowerOf2 as the internal representation. It happens that every such value converts to a finite representation if you convert back to base 10. Not an "infinite" number of digits.
The maximum number of digits in the base 10 representation is roughly 762, for the case of eps(realmin)
E.g., this smallest denormalized number:
s = sprintf('%750.750e',typecast(uint64(1),'double'))
numel(s)
An easier way to compute that number uses eps.
format hex
eps(0)
typecast(uint64(1), 'double')
format longg
eps(0)
s1 = sprintf('%.760g', eps(realmin) )
s2 = sprintf('%.760g', eps(0))
Huh, I didn't know that eps(0) could be used !
Javad Farzi
2022-11-12
Walter Roberson
2022-11-12
On MacOS fprintf will give exact results when asked to display enough digits. Historically on Windows it displayed 0s after around 16 digits, and historically, on Linux it got more digits but only roughly 30.
James Tursa
2022-11-15
The change in the background library code for Windows MATLAB was R2017b. Prior to that it displayed trailing 0s after about 16 digits, but from R2017b onwards it displays exact conversion when enough digits are requested. This is what motivated my num2strexact( ) FEX submission many years ago.
Walter Roberson
2022-11-15
@James Tursa thanks for the note!
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