Tom Melly <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote:
: Just out of curiousity, why does this surprise you?

  I knew that doubles are inaccurate, but it surprised me that they are *that*
inaccurate. The inaccuracy is "only" in the 18th decimal.

  On the other hand, 18 decimals starts to sound like the maximum number of
digits (when converted to decimal) that the base of a double can hold...

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