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From: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Array indexing vs. pointers...
Message-ID: <6928@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 88 17:39:42 GMT
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In article <10332@s.ms.uky.edu>, aash@ms.uky.edu ( Aashi Deacon ) writes:
> According to theory, '.1' cannot be represented exactly as a floating
> point number because in base2 it is irrational.  ...

No, .1 is not *irrational* (nonrepeating) in any base.  '.1' cannot
be represented as a conventional finite binary bit set because its
binary representation has a *repeating* mantissa.
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