From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2006-11-09T03:01:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple Math Problem

On 11/8/06, Tim Pease <tim.pease@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/8/06, Hugh Sasse <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> With IEEE 754  floating point values you only have 15 digits of
> precision (8 byte doubles). Ara's little example above demonstrates
> that very nicely. Things go pear shaped in the 17th digit with the
> "exact" value 80.04 (v1).
>

<errata>
Sorry, that should be "Hugh's little example above".
</errata>

TwP