* Re: Floating point calculus error...
[not found] ` <20020825180708.GE6783@greux.loria.fr>
@ 2002-08-25 19:02 ` dmeyer
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From: dmeyer @ 2002-08-25 19:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
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In article <20020825180708.GE6783@greux.loria.fr> you write:
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 18:32:38 +0200, David Kågedal wrote:
> > Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> writes:
> > > $ echo $[0.4]
> > > 0.40000000000000002
> > >
> > > I think that it should give the minimum number of decimals in such a way
> > > that when converting back to binary, one should get the same result.
> >
> > But it does.
>
> No, this is not the *minimum* number of decimal digits. 0.4 would
> be sufficient in this case.
This is a bad idea, IMHO. The number is internally represented as
0.40000000000000002, and that's what should be printed out. If you
don't like all the digits, use printf.
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Dave Meyer
dmeyer@dmeyer.net
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