On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 12:42:29PM -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2021-05-22 7:26 p.m., Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >
> >input0.24997
>
> You are playing at the edge of the maximum mantissa length. Did you ever
> try using that number in LibreOffice or
hi,
>You are playing at the edge of the maximum mantissa length. Did you ever
try using that number in LibreOffice or Excel?
i know ;-)
i do also know that Excel and LO try to avoid user irritations by some 'rounding' or 'bit truncating', know that it doesn't work well and so on, but that
Back in the days of DOS there was a solution for folks who wanted
floating point calculations to act like calculations done with pencil and
paper algorithms. It was called Binary Coded Decimal. Instead of
representing the entire real with a base 2 float it represented each
digit with a binary
Hi,
On 2021-05-22 7:26 p.m., Steven D'Aprano wrote:
input 0.24997
You are playing at the edge of the maximum mantissa length. Did you ever
try using that number in LibreOffice or Excel?
Andreas
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