[Tutor] Loop over floating point values

[Dave Angel]

On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 16:28:38 +1000, Amit Saha <amitsaha.in at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Indeed, that's a good point. Surprisingly, C does it just fine:


> # include <stdio.h>


> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
>   float x = 0.0;
>   while(x<1)
>     {
>       x += 0.1;
>       printf("%f\n", x);
>     }


>   return 0;
> }


> gives the following output:


> 0.100000
> 0.200000
> 0.300000
> 0.400000
> 0.500000
> 0.600000
> 0.700000
> 0.800000
> 0.900000
> 1.000000

Fine???? The output is pretty,  but thoroughly wrong. There's an 
extra value at the end.

-- 
DaveA