A colleague forwarded this set of comments/questions to me and I am forwarding to the REBOL list... > When performing mathematical calculations, > I've come across some interesting results, particularly with the modular > division ( // ) operation. > > For example, if I perform > >> e: 1.22 // 0.01 > in REBOL, e will equal 9.99999999999992E-3. > Although the answer is 0.01, or 1E-2, I can type > >> e = 0.01 and true > > will be returned. > > While accepting 9.99999999999992E-3 is sufficient in most cases, > I may be in trouble if I wanted to convert the value of e to a string, for > example. > Is there anyway to make this calculation return display 1E-2 exactly? > > I am using REBOL/Core Version 2.3.0.3.1. > > Thanx, > -C. Hampton
