Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!yaping From: yaping@eleazar.dartmouth.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Array indexing vs. pointers... Keywords: irrational? Message-ID: <10700@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 2 Nov 88 18:32:06 GMT References: <836@proxftl.UUCP> <3105@hubcap.UUCP> <1700@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <10332@s.ms.uky.edu> <10029@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: jalphin@prism.clemson.edu Organization: Yale University Lines: 11 [This article was written by Scott Horne, not Yaping Xu. Direct all e-mail responses to me at jalphin@prism.clemson.edu.] In article <10332@s.ms.uky.edu>, aash@ms.uky.edu ( Aashi Deacon ) writes: >> >> ... '.1' cannot be represented exactly as a floating >> point number because in base2 it is irrational. Irrational? Clearly not. --Scott Horne