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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Subtle Math Questions
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.212624.5276@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 21:26:24 GMT
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Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <2730@ttardis.UUCP> mjo@ttardis.UUCP (Mike O'Connor) writes:
>Well...  on an HP-11 or 15, you can take the cosine of pi/2 and get
>a number that is not zero.  It's rather annoying.

Did you really expect anything else, from floating-point arithmetic?
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