[lmi] Numerics [Was: Converting numbers in mortality tables to and from text]

[Greg Chicares]

On 2016-03-18 00:56, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
[...]
> [*] See 
> https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/float-precision-revisited-nine-digit-float-portability/

And now the expression
  0.07 * (1.0 + 1.0 * epsilon)
doesn't seem to equal
  0.07 × (1 + ε)
with gcc-4.9.1 ; see:
  http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lmi-commits/2016-03/msg00008.html
for a unit test that always worked with gcc-3.4.5, but failed with gcc-4.9.1
until I substituted a literal for that expression. I doubt gcc is wrong.