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Re: 0.3*3 == 0.9?

From: CdeMills
Subject: Re: 0.3*3 == 0.9?
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:20:40 -0700 (PDT) 

Michael Creel wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> octave:1> 0.3*2 == 0.6
> ans =  1
> octave:2> 0.3*3 == 0.9
> ans = 0
> octave:3>
> 
> 

While reading one of D. Knuth books, I remember he wrote NEVER to use such
constructs for floating-points number, but instead
abs(0.3*3-.9) <= eps
which returns true.

Regards

Pascal
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