Bizarre floating-point output

[Nick Maclaren]

In article <50f5snF1fb5uqU2 at mid.individual.net>,
Bjoern Schliessmann <usenet-mail-0306.20.chr0n0ss at spamgourmet.com> writes:
|> Nick Maclaren wrote:
|> 
|> > Ah!  That explains it.  I would call that reason intermediate
|> > between rational and an artifact of the way the code has evolved!
|> 
|> Which code has evolved? Those precision problems are inherent
|> problems of the way floats are stored in memory.

The use of different precisions for the two cases is not, however,
and it is that I was and am referring to.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.