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Re: Zero or not?

From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Subject: Re: Zero or not?
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:17:46 -0700 
On 21/07/07, Matthias Brennwald <address@hidden> wrote:

I expected the below code to yield only zeros, but it does not:


That's just the way IEEE arithmetic works. When subtracting two
numbers that are very close, you may not get zero, just machine
epsilon. Try this, for fun: 0.3 - 0.2 - 0.1

- Jordi G. H.
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