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From: nick@agsm.unsw.oz (Nick Frisina)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: precision of real numbers...
Message-ID: <580@agsm.unsw.oz>
Date: 28 Apr 88 01:37:16 GMT
Organization: Australian Graduate School of Management
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Summary: problems...

i am having trouble with an apollo 3000 and 4000 in calculating
"small real numbers" (eg 0.0000002etc)
the program (in pascal) gives an answer the order of 150.etc.
i havn't done a great deal of testing yet, but has anyone else
found same or similar behaviour....
nick