At 12:33 -0400 6/11/99, John.Maloney@disney.com wrote:
...SNIP... I wonder if this problem of getting stuck in a cycle is a side effect of floating point roundoff and/or normalization? I would expect the integer version of the algorithm to be free of this problem; it was a well-tested and studied choice of parameters, which is why we chose it.
I don't think it should have any effect since only the integer part of the float should ever be used. IE, using floats there is a trick to get long fast integers. The fraction part 'should' never be non-zero.
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