Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
: Further, the documentation should make clear that floating-point math is
: _not_ precise. Especially in long operations the error will build up

  That's right. The key problem here is the value 0.1. It can't be accurately
represented in binary format.
  We have the same problem with the decimal format with values like 1/3;
it can't be represented accurately.

  It is NOT a bug. It's just a hardware limitation.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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