From: Joost Diepenmaat <joost@...>
Date: 2008-08-05T09:58:40+09:00
Subject: Re: [BUG?] Strange behavior in Integer

Todd Benson <caduceass@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Sebastian Hungerecker
> <sepp2k@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Joe Davison wrote:
>>>> "%.30f" % (33.80 * 100)
>> => "3379.999999999999545252649113535881"
>>
>> Seems like one to me.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Sebastian
>
> Just playing around a little (no exhaustive testing), but it seems
> like this only happens with a number string matching
> /\A3[2-9]\.[38]0*\Z/ (for nubies, a number that is in the closed
> interval 32 to 40 with a following 3 or 8 in the decimal place and
> nothing after it except for zero or more zeros).  Weird.  There might
> be other cases.

http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html

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