Quote: strict evaluation is wrong for mixed precision expressions; e.g., 7.0/3.0*d should be all double precision

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Most languages require that the precision used to … evaluation uses the narrowest precision allowed by the … Unfortunately, strict evaluation is almost never what the … Another example is the evaluation of d:=7.0/3.0*d [where d is a double]; if 7.0/3.0 is evaluated to single precision, the extra precision …   Google-1   Google-2

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