Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 3/7/25 4:01 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:

c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote or quoted:

But "still almost ZERO" also is.

    So, I reckon what these folks were getting at and just couldn't
   put into the right words is: In a framework like non-standard
   analysis, a positive infinitesimal number multiplied by two is
   still smaller than any positive finite number.

   A complicated way to state it .......
   Some of this "Just Depends" - as usual.
   Twice "almost zero" may, or may NOT, be relevant depending.