On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:24:14 -0800, John Ladasky wrote: > Curiosity prompts me to ask... > > Those of you who program in other languages regularly: if you visit > comp.lang.java, for example, do people ask this question about > floating-point arithmetic in that forum? Or in comp.lang.perl?
Yes. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/588004/is-javascripts-math-broken And look at the "Linked" sidebar. Obviously StackOverflow users no more search the internet for the solutions to their problems than do comp.lang.python posters. http://compgroups.net/comp.lang.java.programmer/Floating-point-roundoff-error -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
