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From: vu0310@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (R. Kym Horsell)
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Subject: Re: Fun With Floats in Quintus
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Date: 14 Aug 90 00:57:21 GMT
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In article <EIVERSON.90Aug13174424@aigyptos.nmsu.edu> eiverson@nmsu.edu (Eric Iverson) writes:
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>How oh how does one represent the numbers 8.1 and 5.4 in Quintus
>Prolog?  I have tried everything I can think of without any luck.

There are some real numbers which can't be represented in floating
point. The language (nor implementation) is not at fault. 
For example, try to write down the representation of 0.1 (decimal) in binary.

-Kym Horsell