I am currently learning clojure by reading The Joy of Clojure and I
have 2 questions on float opertions:
- why does (+ 4.2 8.4) return 12.601 and (+ 1.5 2.6) 4.1?
Since 4.2, 8.4 and (+ 4.2 8.4) are java Doubles why does it not behave
as expected? What does clojure do in the
This may help explain things:
http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/325228e8b66923ac
Have all good days,
David Sletten
On Aug 20, 2010, at 8:26 AM, bufo wrote:
I am currently learning clojure by reading The Joy of Clojure and I
have 2 questions on float opertions:
- why does (+ 4.2
- why does (+ 4.2 8.4) return 12.601 and (+ 1.5 2.6) 4.1?
Since 4.2, 8.4 and (+ 4.2 8.4) are java Doubles why does it not behave
as expected? What does clojure do in the background?
That's not a bug. Doubles have a standard. Clojure implementation
follows the standard.
(as most
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 14:26, bufo ferna...@gmail.com wrote:
I am currently learning clojure by reading The Joy of Clojure and I
have 2 questions on float opertions:
- why does (+ 4.2 8.4) return 12.601 and (+ 1.5 2.6) 4.1?
Since 4.2, 8.4 and (+ 4.2 8.4) are java Doubles why does
