[jira] [Closed] (MATH-956) Hardcoded numbers in "LevenbergMarquardtOptimizer"

["Luc Maisonobe (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Luc Maisonobe closed MATH-956.
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Closing issue as version 3.2 has been released on 2013-04-06.
                
> Hardcoded numbers in "LevenbergMarquardtOptimizer"
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MATH-956
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-956
>             Project: Commons Math
>          Issue Type: Task
>    Affects Versions: 3.1.1
>            Reporter: Gilles
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 3.2
>
>
> The class contains numbers "2.2251e-308" and "2.2204e-16".
> The former is the "SAFE_MIN" defined in class "Precision".
> The latter is documented as
> {noformat}
> 2.2204e-16 is the machine epsilon for IEEE754
> {noformat}
> However, the "EPSILON" defined in class "Precision" is equal to "1.1102230246251565E-16" (i.e. half the above number). This requires clarification.
> I would remove the seemingly incorrect comment (if we assume that the correct definition is in the comment for "EPSILON" in "Precision") and replace the hard-coded values with
> {noformat}
> 2 * Precision.EPSILON
> {noformat}
> Do you agree?

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