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From: tony@oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Inherent imprecision of floating point variables
Message-ID: <439@oha.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 90 01:42:36 GMT
References: <3300@crash.cts.com> <44436@ism780c.isc.com> <b3f.2688bfce@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Organization: Olekshy Hoover & Associates Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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In-Reply-To: Message <b3f.2688bfce@ibmpcug.co.uk> dated 27 Jun 90 14:16:46 GMT

In <b3f.2688bfce@ibmpcug.co.uk>, dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) writes:
>
> > [question about]	while (f != 10.0) f += 0.1;
>
> If its all to do with conversion routines, why doesn't this stop when f
> reaches 10?
	[which was a rhetorical question, to the poster he had quoted]

I add...

It does not stop at (f == 10.0) simply because no-one said f = 10.0;
The converse (why did it stop, if it had) is more complex.
Next question.

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