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Bug #6439

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Double rounding fails in some cases while evaluating Expressions

Added by Owsiak Michal about 10 years ago. Updated about 10 years ago.

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Closed
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Urgent
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Start date:
03/04/2014
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100%

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Description

It seems that addition of doubles can produce values slightly different than they should to be.

Please take a look at attached workflow (simple_error.xml).

Condition that should be satisfied to escape the loop is: 1.7 > 1.5 + 0.1

However, loop is interrupted sooner, because of incorrect calculation of doubles. Value of "p" is set to: 1.6000000000000003

This, of course, makes it impossible to use doubles as check points for the loops.

However, it seems that casting to string and back works fine (take a look at second workflow - simple.xml)

Cheers

Michal


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simple_error.xml (83.1 KB) simple_error.xml Owsiak Michal, 03/04/2014 04:23 AM
simple.xml (107 KB) simple.xml Owsiak Michal, 03/04/2014 04:23 AM
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Updated by Christopher Brooks about 10 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • Assignee changed from Derik Barseghian to Christopher Brooks
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

It is almost never a good idea to compare doubles without using an epsilon factor. Because of rounding, doubles are unlikely to precisely represent a value.

One workaround in the expression language is to use

close(value1, value2)

which is defined as:

Return true if the first argument
is close to the second (within
EPSILON, where EPSILON is
a static public variable of this
class)

Tokens also have an isCloseTo() method:

/** Test whether the value of this Token is close to the argument * Token. The argument and this token are converted to * equivalent types, and then compared. Generally, this is the * higher of the type of this token and the argument type. * Subclasses should implement the protected _isCloseTo() method * to perform the correct type-specific operation. * @see #isEqualTo * @param rightArgument The token to test closeness of this token with. * @param epsilon The value that we use to determine whether two * tokens are close. * @return A boolean token that contains the value true if the * units of this token and the argument token are the same, and their * values are close. * @exception IllegalActionException If the argument token is not * of a type that can be compared with this token, or the units * are not the same.
*/
public final BooleanToken isCloseTo(Token rightArgument, double epsilon)

See 13.4.1 Invoking Methods in http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/books/Systems/chapters/Expressions.pdf

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