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[David Eppstein]

In article <eppstein-03540D.13070222072001 at news.service.uci.edu>,
 David Eppstein <eppstein at ics.uci.edu> wrote:

> Well then, float is a very bad choice for what to return, or then how do 
> we explain when 3/4 * 4 = 3 (exactly) but 3/10 * 10 != 10?

Uh, of course I meant 3/10 * 10 != 3...
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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
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