On 28/01/15 16:20, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
howdy, check the attached patch.
1e+06 + 1 is not equal to 1e+06
but 1e+09 + 1 is equal to 1e+09
meaning it didn't add 1 to 1e+09! Meaning there's a limit where it stops
adding 1 to something.
how's that and why?
welcome to floating point :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point#Representable_numbers.2C_conversion_and_rounding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_epsilon
Claude
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