On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Quincey Morris
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Assuming that the string contains a decimal floating point number, then both 
> the conversion to and from binary floating point involve (in general) 
> imprecision from rounding and/or truncation, since in both cases the result 
> could theoretically require an infinite number of decimal or binary places.

Wow, I'm totally not thinking this morning. Thanks.

--Kyle
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