"Peter J. Holzer" wrote:

> Right. Especially make it clear that floating point numbers are binary
> and cannot exactly represent fractions which are not a multiple of some
> power of two. 1/2, 3/4, 356/1024 can be exactly represented, but 1/10
> cannot (just like 1/3 cannot be exactly represented in decimal).
> Therefore 10 * 0.1 is not equal to 1.

Except on TI's where they're in BCD ;)

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