Re: 0.3-0.2=0.999999999998?

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From: Shannon Wheeler
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 00:00

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hmmm. That would be an odd (strange) use of NOT in written or spoken english
but...

SOME [rather than all] {real numbers} can't be {exactly managed by float
numbers}.

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Shannon Wheeler
Data & Comm. Tech
Clearwater Welding & Fabricating Ltd
Fort McMurray, AB

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Simon A Watts wrote in message <7dsqkk$dpl$1@trog.dra.hmg.gb>...
>> >2. All real numbers can't be exactly managed by float numbers.
>> NOT all real numbers can be managed exactly by floating point numbers.
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>Just to be pedantic, these two sentences are equivalent:
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>{ All real numbers } can't be { exactly managed by float numbers }
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>NOT { { all real numbers } can be { managed exactly by floating point
>numbers } }
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