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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Inherent imprecision of floating point variables
Message-ID: <10997@alice.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 90 12:48:04 GMT
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In article <4186@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>, kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) writes:

> Because (10.0 - 0.1) + 0.1 will never be exactly equal to 10.0.

Beg pardon?  I agree that it won't always be exactly 10.0
but `never' is a bit strong.
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