11 May
2007
11 May
'07
2:58 p.m.
On 11 May 2007, at 15:07, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:33:04PM +0200, Lars Luthman
wrote:
So, that's true, but I've still not seen an example of where an
synchronous audio plugin needs to know the numerator and denominator
individually to better do it's processing.
A double can represent pi with an error of 2e-16, and I can't believe
that the billionth of a cent detune error is in any way significant.
I am probably being dense here, but please give an example. In the
meantime I'm going to write some code to measure the accumulated
error, incase its just a trivial piece of arithmetic that's escaped
me. Floating point maths is sometimes non-intuative.
- Steve
That sounds like a good argument for two ints to
me. Although
you'd have
to do a lot better than double if you wanted to represent irrational
numbers in binary form. =)
Two 32-bit ints can represent (the non-integer part of) most (not all)
irrational values to better precision than a double. The algo to find
them is a bit mysterious but very simple. Simple example: 355/113 is
equal to pi with a relative error of less than 1e-7, not bad for two
3-digit numbers. It's not difficult to find two 32-bit ints that would
be better than a double.