> What languages use that, or something giving non-floating 
> point results these days?

I haven't had to use such things for a long time, but Scheme has a
data type for floating point and another data type for exact numbers.
Python's documentation has a good explanation of the issue and makes
the "decimal" and "fractions" modules available to do more exact
calculations.  See: 
  http://docs.python.org/release/3.1.3/tutorial/floatingpoint.html

tim
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