Re: 0.3-0.2=0.999999999998?

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From: Roedy Green
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 00:00

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On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 06:43:24 -0500, "Harry Rowe" <hrowe@erinet.com>
wrote:

>Another reason is Java is not fully IEEE 754 compliant.
>It and Microsoft compilers are quite broken when it comes
>to numerical analysis.

Would you care to explain how fully compliant IEEE 754 would handle
that differently?



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