Why the nonsense number appears?

[Ben O'Steen]

On Mon, October 31, 2005 10:23, Sybren Stuvel said:
> Ben O'Steen enlightened us with:
>> Using decimal as opposed to float sorts out this error as floats are
>> not built to handle the size of number used here.
>
> They can handle the size just fine. What they can't handle is 1/1000th
> precision when using numbers in the order of 1e10.
>

I used the word 'size' here incorrectly, I intended to mean 'length'
rather than numerical value. Sorry for the confusion :)



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