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Clarify {f32,f64}::EPSILON docs #66837

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The doc for EPSILON says:

This is the difference between 1.0 and the next largest representable number.

Which is a bit unclear.

Wikipedia says

Machine epsilon is defined as the difference between 1 and the next larger floating point number

So this PR update the docs to match the Wikipedia version.

The original PR also has this in a comment.

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Thanks!

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dtolnay commented Nov 28, 2019

@bors r+ rollup

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bors commented Nov 28, 2019

📌 Commit 85a468b has been approved by dtolnay

@bors bors added S-waiting-on-bors Status: Waiting on bors to run and complete tests. Bors will change the label on completion. and removed S-waiting-on-review Status: Awaiting review from the assignee but also interested parties. labels Nov 28, 2019
RalfJung added a commit to RalfJung/rust that referenced this pull request Nov 29, 2019
Clarify `{f32,f64}::EPSILON` docs

The doc for `EPSILON` says:
>  This is the difference between `1.0` and the next **largest** representable number.

Which is a bit unclear.

[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_epsilon) says
> Machine epsilon is defined as the difference between 1 and the next **larger** floating point number

So this PR update the docs to match the Wikipedia version.

The original PR also has this in a [comment](rust-lang#50919 (comment)).
RalfJung added a commit to RalfJung/rust that referenced this pull request Nov 29, 2019
Clarify `{f32,f64}::EPSILON` docs

The doc for `EPSILON` says:
>  This is the difference between `1.0` and the next **largest** representable number.

Which is a bit unclear.

[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_epsilon) says
> Machine epsilon is defined as the difference between 1 and the next **larger** floating point number

So this PR update the docs to match the Wikipedia version.

The original PR also has this in a [comment](rust-lang#50919 (comment)).
bors added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 29, 2019
Rollup of 11 pull requests

Successful merges:

 - #66379 (Rephrase docs in for ptr)
 - #66589 (Draw vertical lines correctly in compiler error messages)
 - #66613 (Allow customising ty::TraitRef's printing behavior)
 - #66766 (Panic machinery comments and tweaks)
 - #66791 (Handle GlobalCtxt directly from librustc_interface query system)
 - #66793 (Record temporary static references in generator witnesses)
 - #66808 (Cleanup error code)
 - #66826 (Clarifies how to tag users for assigning PRs)
 - #66837 (Clarify `{f32,f64}::EPSILON` docs)
 - #66844 (Miri: do not consider memory allocated by caller_location leaked)
 - #66872 (Minor documentation fix)

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@bors bors merged commit 85a468b into rust-lang:master Nov 30, 2019
@ohadravid ohadravid deleted the epsilon-doc branch November 30, 2019 10:39
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