floating point glitch

Piet van Oostrum piet at cs.uu.nl
Tue Sep 28 05:50:36 EDT 2004


>>>>> Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> (PR) wrote:

PR> Paul Foley <see at below.invalid> writes:
>> The "perfect solution" is either: (a) to print the minimal number of
>> digits that can maintain print/read consistency -- in this case, that
>> means printing "0.66",

PR> Nah, you can do that by printing everything as zero.

That would not maintain print/read consistency, i.e. if you read back the
printed value you don't get the original value.
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