HHC 2015 - Savage benchmark curiosity

[Claudio L.]

(10-07-2015 07:37 PM)Dieter Wrote:  That's why in close cases (e.g. the one you mentioned) the last digit may be off by one. I don't think it's a rounding issue, it's simply a slight error in the 15-digit result.

I think you are right, which makes it even more incredible that some random error in the last digit could "self-correct" back to the original value. I refuse to believe it's a coincidence, there has to be a mathematical explanation for that... but it's beyond my knowledge.