[Carpet] Bugzilla Bug 118

[Erik Schnetter]

On May 2, 2008, at 17:50:53, Ian Hinder wrote:

> Ian Hinder wrote:
>
>> The eps with which the times are being compared in CarpetLib is  
>> 1e-12,
>> but the two times here are different by 1.36e-12, so the error is
>> triggered.  I am rerunning with a larger eps value to make sure  
>> nothing
>> else is wrong.  This happens at t = 586.500 - I don't know why  
>> Carpet is
>> saying 2736.
>
> The run with the larger eps value passed the point at which the old  
> run
> crashed.


Ian,

I found the source of the problem.  This comparison expects an  
absolute accuracy of 1e-12, which is obviously wrong, it should  
requite 1e-12 as relative accuracy.  Burkhard Zink just came across a  
similar error in Carpet.  I expect to push corrections soon.

-erik

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