problem with floats and calculations

[Karsten Goen]

also this doesn't help, there are still errors in the accuracy. Isn't there
a perfect way to do such calculations?

Karsten Goen <karsten.goen at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > hey all,
> > I got a problem with floats and calculations. I made an mini-application
> where
> > you get random questions with some science calculations in it
> > So the user can type in his result with the values given by random
> creation.
> > And the user value is compared against the computer value... the problem
> is
> > that the user input is only 2 numbers behind the '.' so like 1.42, 1.75
> >
> > here is the example:
> > http://dpaste.com/hold/158698/
> >
> > without decimal it would be very inaccurate. decimal is very accurate
> when I
> > have to compare d with users calculations from a,b,c,var.
> > But when I ask the user what is "a" the result gets inaccurate when
> calculating
> > with the same values given before (b,c,d,var).
> >
> > Maybe anyone can help me with this problem, I don't want to generate for
> every
> > possible user input a single formula. And also it should be possible for
> a
> > computer, my calculator at home does the same and is much smaller and
> slower.
>
> d = (a * b)/ (c * var)
> d = Decimal(d).quantize(Decimal('0.01'))
>
> By quantizing d, the above equality does not hold any longer. You've got
> to drop that line (your calculator doesn't quantize either).
>
>
> Stefan Krah
>
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