So there's no way to get exact stream that represents a fraction, such as:
.5 = .10000000000000000....
.2 = .00110011001100110011............
???
From: Udo Stenzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Dinh Tien Tuan Anh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Error with Float
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:51:14 +0200
> Value is: 0.800000000000001
What did you expect? Floating point numbers are inexact by their very
nature. Since 0.8, like many other numbers, is not representable
exactly in binary, (10 * 0.8 - 8) will certainly not be zero.
Take a course in numerical mathematics some time. It helps.
Udo.
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