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nag_machine_precision (X02AJC)

▸▿ Contents

    1  Purpose
    2  Specification
    3  Description
    4  References
    5  Arguments
    6  Error Indicators and Warnings
    7  Accuracy
    8  Parallelism and Performance
    9  Further Comments
    10  Example

1  Purpose

nag_machine_precision (X02AJC) returns ε, the value machine precision.

2  Specification

#include <nag.h>
#include <nagx02.h>
double  nag_machine_precision

3  Description

nag_machine_precision (X02AJC) is a constant defined in the C Header file.
nag_machine_precision (X02AJC) returns machine precision, computed as ε = 12 × b1-p , where b is the arithmetic base (see nag_real_base (X02BHC)) and p is the number of significant base-b digits (see nag_real_base_digits (X02BJC)).
It is important to note that the definition of ε here differs from that in ISO Fortran 95 (1997).

4  References

ISO Fortran 95 (1997) ISO Fortran 95 programming language (ISO/IEC 1539–1:1997)

5  Arguments

None.

6  Error Indicators and Warnings

None.

7  Accuracy

None.

8  Parallelism and Performance

nag_machine_precision (X02AJC) is not threaded in any implementation.

9  Further Comments

None.

10  Example

None.
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