wormwood_3 wrote: >>>> 1.1 > 1.1000000000000001 > The second case is, of course, what is throwing me. By having a > decimal point, "1.1" is a float type, and apparently it cannot be > represented by binary floating point numbers accurately. I must admit > that I do not understand why this is the case. Would anyone be able > to enlighten me?
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