Pablo Valle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...snip... 0.999999 - 1 ...] will give a result of
> -9.999999998067111E-7
> ...and we all know that the answer is -0.0000010000000000
You do realise that
|-9.999999998067111E-7 - -0.0000010000000000| = 1.932889E-16 < really small
and that that's about all the accuracy you should expect, right?
You have read "What every computer scientist should know about floating
point", right?
John "trolled again"
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