On Nov 23, 2006, at 8:33 PM, Lennox Jacob wrote:
Thanks again Russ, I will try your suggestion.
Lennox.
Russ Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Lennox.
Your observation may be correct - but in floating point, you need to
know that 2.00000... is the same thing as 1.99999... And this applies
to all numbers. The fraction is not precise, particularly when
passing through a decimal to binary or binary to decimal conversion.
If you want to study up on it, there is a whole area of interest
called numerical analysis.
Russ
That's because up to that point the numbers are small enough that
they can be represented with a smaller mantissa and possibly require
no exponent
Almost as good as adding two integers up to a point
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