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Article #16313Re: 0.3-0.2=0.999999999998?
From: Rick Stabile
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 00:00
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Am I not getting something here? I tried this in PowerJ and my result was
0.1. In any case, I could understand a result of 0.0999999999998, or even
0.999999999998E-01 -- it's floating point arithmetic and this sort of result
is to be expected. But did the author of this post simply make a typo that no
one else mentioned, or is his result really an order of magnitude too large
(in which case, his concern is justified)?
In article <7blg56$2pl$1@zonnetje.NL.net>,
"-=(CyBerco)=-" <Berco.Beute@EverMind.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Try the following:
>
> System.out.println("What is 0.3-0.2 ? : " + (0.3-0.2));
>
> How come? I sure didn't expect this outcome!
>
> Greetings,
> Berco.
>
>
Rick Stabile, Sun Certified Java Programmer
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