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On Tuesday, November 4, 2014 2:13:37 PM UTC-5, John Myles White wrote:
>
> Hi Neil, 
>
> Julie does math the same way that all computers do math. You're probably 
> coming from another language where a lot of effort is invested into 
> pretending that computers offer a closer approximation to abstract 
> mathematics than they actually do. Those systems have been lying to you. 
>
> Put another way: you just took the red pill by using Julia. 
>
>  -- John 
>
> On Nov 4, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Neil Devadasan <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
>
> > julia> f(x::Float64, y::Float64) = 2x + y; 
> > 
> > julia> f(10.97,23.9985) 
> > 45.938500000000005 
> > 
> > The above method execution of function f returns an answer that I cannot 
> understand.  Can someone clarify? 
> > 
> > Thank you. 
>
>

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