Floating point calculation problem

Schizoid Man schiz_man at 21stcentury.com
Sat Feb 2 10:54:25 EST 2013


"Schizoid Man" <schiz_man at 21stcentury.com> wrote in message 
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> So for values of s=60 and k=50, the first code returns 0.1823215567939546 
> (on the PC), whereas the second returns 0.0 (on the Mac). This this 
> expression is evaluated in the numerator, it never returns a divide by 
> zero error, and the result of 0 is treated as legitimate.

D'oh! That's the error right there. My inputs are 60 and 50, not 60.0 and 
50.0. I am a dunderhead.

Apologies for wasting your time.
 




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