Re: Round (fix) of doubles

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From: Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 00:00

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"Thomas Christen" <chr@active.ch> writes:

> Has somone an idea ?

IEEE floating point numbers are notorious when it comes to doing math
for some numbers, because it cannot represent all numbers
correctly. More precisely, it has problems with numbersthat cannot be
expressed as a*2^b for any value of integers a and b.

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