On 20/02/2007, at 3:27 PM, Gareth Edwards wrote:
> Sorry to complain about it,
Don't worry, you were somewhat provoked over the course of the thread
(I would recommend the more frequent posters on cfaussie buy a copy
of "Parent Effectiveness Training" by Dr. Thomas R. Gordon ISBN
0609806939 to find out how to peacefully turn a confrontation into a
win/win situation for everyone), the original question was fair
enough :)
> it just seems strange, I won't complain anymore. Does it do the
> same thing in Actionscript? (don't have time to check right now)
It should.
> What do you think is the best way to handle this in coldfusion?
If you only wanted to nearest 0.00001 you could say:
nice = round(possiblyyuck * 100000) / 100000
> Also, I'm curious, how many people on this list are aware of this
> issue?
Developers doing floating point calculations in any programming
language comes across it sooner or later - on a digital computer*.
Cheers,
Robin
* The only mechanical computer I've seen (not working) that wouldn't
run into this is the _analog_ computer that used to be in the
basement of the computer science faculty at Sydney Uni, preserved by
the late Prof. Alan Bromley. This was the sort of thing they used
for the Apollo program - it looked like a big grey tote board - you'd
actually wire up a differential equation with patch leads, set the
inputs using dials, the current would flow and you'd read the results
from an oscilloscope.
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