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From: richard@iesd.auc.dk (Richard Flamsholt S0rensen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: floating point multiplication BUG in C (cc compiler)
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Date: 22 Oct 90 11:28:30 GMT
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In-reply-to: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au's message of 22 Oct 90 01:19:42 GMT


In article <4032@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
> The problem here is that a number like 0.64 *CANNOT* *POSSIBLY* be
> represented exactly in (finite-precision) floating-point.  At all.
> In *any* programming language. [...]

  At least when using *binary* logic as your hardware  ;-)

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/Richard Flamsholt
richard@iesd.auc.dk