Very clear and cool example, Alan! Bill
On 23 Jun 2004 at 11:39, Alan Wolfe wrote: > > Check out this oversimplified example :P > > > > if you only had 2 bits to store the number to the right of a decimal > point, > > thats only 4 combinations so youd have: > > 0 > > 0.25 > > 0.5 > > 0.75 > > > > so if you made a variable of that type and tried to set it to 0.14, > > it > would > > have to set it to 0.25 since that was the closest match that it can > > store.

