From: Austin Ziegler <Austin.Ziegler@...>
Date: 2004-05-13T04:55:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Major Addition Bug?

> From: Mohammad Khan [mailto:mkhan@lextranet.com] 
> Subject: Re: Major Addition Bug?
> 
> I guess, you guys are missing the point,
> 
> in real life you can't have exact answer of 1/3 + 2.3 + 1.3 
> but you can have exact answer of 625.91 + 900.00 + 22.00

The point has not been missed at all. This is something that cannot be
dealt with on computers using floating point. I would imagine that 1/3
could be represented exactly in a base-3 counting system, rather than a
decimal (base-10) counting system.

If you need precision with decimal values, don't use floats.

-austin
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