mueller

mueller

Simple demonastration of Muller's Recurrence problem which shows the floating point roundoff errors.

Use

You can get this example via NPM

npm install mueller

This example is implemented using in 3 ways:

• using native Number class
• using bignumber.js
• using decimal.js

In order to run it this example use the following command

node index.js [library] [decimal_places]

library can be "dec" or "big" for decimal.js or bignumber.js respectively. If it isn't provided native Number is used.

decimal_places is used for bignumber.js and represents the maximum number of decimal places of the results of operations. (default values is 20)

Benchmarks

The tests were done using Intel® Core™ i7-4702MQ @ 2.20 Ghz with default number of decimal places for bignumber.js

native

real    0m0.299s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.031s

bignumber.js

real    0m28.282s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.015s

decimal.js

real    0m25.758s
user    0m0.015s
sys     0m0.015s