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From: Andrew Klossner
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 21:22

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>     0 .1 .9 {
>    } for

> Since .1 is not exactly representable
> in binary, roundoff error causes the first for loop to execute only 9 times.

Nothing new here.  You can find 25-year-old textbooks warning you not
to make this mistake when writing BASIC programs.

  -=- Andrew Klossner  (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
                       (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)

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