Date:	Mon, 24 May 93 16:13:56 EDT
From:	peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
To:	fine AT main1 DOT jinr DOT dubna DOT su
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Wrong cos() ???

> COS(X)=   7.83951354E-15   computed by IBM PC 486/25 MSDOS v.5.0 + DJGPP
>           7.34169098E-16   computed by IBM/VM
>           7.34169098E-16   computed by VAX/VMS
>       Does anybody know how could one work around this problem?

What problem?  You are approximating cos(-20.5*pi), which is zero, on machines
with different floating point hardware.  All get the "wrong" answer, but the
errors are small compared to the -1 to +1 range possible from the cos
function.  The only surprising thing is that the VAX and IBM/VM results agree.

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