[petsc-dev] default SNES rtol for single precision builds

Ethan Coon ecoon at lanl.gov
Tue Sep 20 10:54:51 CDT 2011


On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 10:35 -0500, Barry Smith wrote:
> On Sep 20, 2011, at 8:28 AM, Jed Brown wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 15:16, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >  But they don't have the sqrt versions.
> > 
> > If only there was a way to get a computer to calculate a square root, some kind of computational procedure starting with a number and producing its square root...
> 
>   Alas CPP does not provide a sqrt function, we should write a new CPP that does :-)
> 

I think this provides an excellent reason to switch to the source code
generation in python model.  

Ethan

> 
>    Barry
> 

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