Tom Melly <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote:
> This is a faq wot I wrote on floats - feel free to point out any obvious errors.
> (I was inspired to write it when I found a customer storing social-security
> numbers as floats!)

  You might also tell something about comparing floating point numbers
and why for example the comparison sqrt(100)=10 will probably return
false.

  By the way, you could also say "in computer languages there's usually
a shortcut for writing '*10^' by writing 'e' instead. That is, for
example 1234*(10^12) can be written as 1234e12". Then from that point
forward you can use the e-syntax instead of the *10^ one for clarity.

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