On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:18:52 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Value to store Value really strored
>10. 23 -----------------> 10.22222229
>18.25 ---- ------------> 18.24999999
>2.84 --------- ------> 2.8399999999
>7.41 --------- ------> 7.409
The error is inherent in the way that floating point values
are represented in base 2. If you just need fixed-point
numbers like currency values, consider storing them as
integers instead, multiplied by the appropriate power of 10.
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