OK, thanks - the website is really useful. I come from R, where the result is presented as 1.2 – I guess Julia is more low-level in its interface. (BTW I did of course search the forums before posting, but most have missed the question).
Den torsdag den 3. september 2015 kl. 09.45.18 UTC+2 skrev Michael Borregaard: > > Hi, > in the Julia documentation, I fell over this strange behaviour: > > julia> 1.1 + 0.1 > 1.2000000000000002 > > I understand that this may make sense in the context of how floating > numbers are implemented inside Julia - but I cannot think of a single > situation in which the user would want this behaviour. > Can someone explain what is going on, and why this is not a bug? > > Thanks, > Michael >
