Thanks Roman, Mathieu et al for the illuminating replies. On Dec 8, 2011, at 7:57 AM, Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le 2011-12-08 à 00:13:00, Joe Newlin a écrit : > >> Can someone explain what's going on in the attached example? I'm getting 7.1 >> minus 7 equals .099. I need to split two-digit integers, so this result is >> giving me problems. > > in fractional powers of two, > > 1/10 = 1/16 + 1/32 + 1/256 + 1/512 + 1/4096 + 1/8192 + 1/65536 + ... > > in fractional binary digits, it's written like 0.000110011001100110011... > it's periodic. However, a float is never periodic, so, the digits are chopped. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > | Mathieu BOUCHARD ----- téléphone : +1.514.383.3801 ----- Montréal, QC _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
