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From: mjo@ttardis.UUCP (Mike O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,sci.math,sci.misc
Subject: Re: Subtle Math Questions
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Date: 24 Apr 91 18:46:02 GMT
Organization: Artificial Intelligence Society
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In article <1991Apr23.212624.5276@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>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?

I just found it amusing because the problem does not seem to occur on
cheaper, "lesser" calculators.  Also, because I was burned on it once
while in high school.  

Such is life...



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