on floating-point numbers

Christian Gollwitzer auriocus at gmx.de
Thu Sep 2 10:49:03 EDT 2021


Am 02.09.21 um 16:49 schrieb Julio Di Egidio:
> On Thursday, 2 September 2021 at 16:41:38 UTC+2, Peter Pearson wrote:
>> On Thu, 02 Sep 2021 10:51:03 -0300, Hope Rouselle wrote:
> 
>>> 39.60000000000001
>>
>> Welcome to the exciting world of roundoff error:
> 
> Welcome to the exiting world of Usenet.
> 
> *Plonk*

Pretty harsh, isn't it? He gave a concise example of the same inaccuracy 
right afterwards.

	Christian


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