At 10:04 12/05/99 +0200, Alessio Dragoni wrote:
>Hi
>
> I try to run the code appended at the end of this message on v1.2pre1
> on linux and in the jdk1.2 and jdk1.2.1 on Win and the result is
> that 0.3*3 is equals to 0,89999999999 and not simply to 0.9 !!!
>
> is this a bug or what?
>
> trying to run this one and you can see it!
> Anyone knows some bug-fix to resolve this strange
> error ?
>
> any comments are welcome!
>
> bye Alessio
>
Thats not a bug, thats just typical behaviour with floating point
algorithm, try to compile and run this little C program on your linux machine:
#include <stdio.h>
void main() {
double d1 = 0.3, d2 = 3, d3;
d3 = d1 * d2;
printf("%20.20lf", d3);
}
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