Mostly because .333333 is not one third
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Dan Bron wrote:
while it's relatively simple to make integers arbitrarily large,
floating point is a much more difficult proposition:
I know, rationally, that this is true. But intuitively it's always struck a
sour note. A floating point number is just an integer with a dot in the
middle. Why is it such a different beast?
-Dan
PS: I once had a very heated philosophical argument with a professor on this
very subject.
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