If 4.0 / 2.0 was 1.9999999999999999999998, it would be ok? The real value of log10 1000 is 3 (3.0). It can be represented with accuracy and it should be.
You get the accuracy value in Perl, but there is the same problem in Python. It's a bit discouraging. Eugene Kirpichov wrote: > What do you consider to be the specification of logBase? Exact > floating-point numbers don't exist, so it has to return an > approximation. The standard doesn't give any guarantees as to the > precision of the approximation. Is a precision of 0.00000000000004 not > satisfactory for you? > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
