Same with all programming languages I think. Basically certain decimal numbers can't be represented in binary. like for instance 0.1 There was a good article about this in pc plus this month (a uk magazine). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point#Accuracy_problems has some information
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:25 PM, fotis.chatzinikos < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a float in java which (in debug) shows as 214.59 after serialization > it appears in the client as : 214.58999633789062 > > I have found a possible fix here > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/632802/how-to-deal-with-number-precision-in-actionscript > > but i am interested to find out which this happens. Anybody with enough > 'under the hood' knowledge? > > > TIA, > Fotis > > > > ------------------------------------ > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Alternative FAQ location: > https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups > Links > > > >
