David Ayers wrote: [snip] > Hmm, I'll take your word for it. I just recalled back in the dark ages > someone told me (or I read it somewhere) that 25.1 would somehow be > represented as 2.51 * 10^1 and that a float or double only stored the > mantissa and exponent which shouldn't result in any discrepancies here.
It does, but in base 2, and the fraction 25.1/16 can't be represented exactly in base 2; you get 2^4 * 1.10010 0011 0011 0011 ... - Alexander Malmberg _______________________________________________ Bug-gnustep mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnustep
