From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-10-16T03:13:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Rounding to X digits

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:
> Expected, really? I'm not all that familiar with floating point standards, but 
> I would have though this kind of thing would have been worked out long ago. 

If you can work out how to store an infinite number of bits in a finite
storage location, you can solve this problem and become famous.

> It's a pretty substantiate miscalculation. --And the fact that simply using 
> '*(1.0/0.1)' fixes it, makes me think so even more.

You're multiplying one inexact quantity by another. Who knows how the answer
will be represented?


Hal