Re: 0.3-0.2=0.999999999998?

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From: Mr. Tines
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 00:00

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On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 09:27:39 +0100, in <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!

Do yourself a favour and look out and read this article.

"What every Computer Scientist should know about Floating-Point Arithmetic"
ACM Computing Surveys, Vol 23 No. 1 March 1991

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