Re: 0.3-0.2=0.999999999998?

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From: Prospero Software
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 00:00

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Berco

If you want to see further discussion of floating-point versus
'real' decimal (like packed), you may care to check out
www.prosperosoftware.co.uk,

cheers

Prospero Software

On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 09:27:39 +0100, "-=(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.
>
>

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Subject: Re: 0.3-0.2=0.999999999998?
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