On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 02:57:50PM -0700, Richard Fateman wrote:
>    The properties that you expect fail because the operations + and * are
>    incorrect.  [...] So there is no issue that the floats are not
>    rational.  Each number is rational.
>    Your arithmetic is defective unless you work at it.

In [8]: (0.001 + 1.1) - 1.0
Out[8]: 0.10099999999999998

In [9]: 0.001 + (1.1 - 1.0)
Out[9]: 0.10100000000000009

[1]> (+ (+ 0.001 (+ 1.1 -1.0)))
0.101000026
[2]> (+ (+ 0.001 1.1) -1.0)
0.10100007

(That's for builtin float's in Python and CL).

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