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From: steve@groucho.ucar.edu (Steve Emmerson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Inherent imprecision of floating point variables
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Date: 7 Jul 90 18:44:45 GMT
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In <14429@lambda.UUCP> jlg@lambda.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:

>...
>The job of the conversion routines is to convert the decimal into the internal
>representations and vice-versa.  They _should_ do this job as accurately as
>possible - if the number is exacly representable in both bases you have a
>right to expect exact conversion.

A right?

Granted by whom?

Steve Emmerson        steve@unidata.ucar.edu        ...!ncar!unidata!steve