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Geometric meaning of epsilon? #43

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BadIdeaException opened this issue Dec 28, 2022 · 0 comments
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Geometric meaning of epsilon? #43

BadIdeaException opened this issue Dec 28, 2022 · 0 comments

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I understand the necessity for epsilon in floating-point comparisons, but is there some geometric interpretation to it? Something like "the minimum edge length to not cause errors is x * epsilon" for some factor x?
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