--On Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:14:09 AM -0400 Andrew Louie wrote:
when incrementing by 0.1 i get a strange behavior where at some arbitrary number, it will append 0.9999999999 to the end of the number.
This is rounding error and applies to all computer systems and all programming languages that use fixed size number representations. It can be fatal - for example see <http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html>.
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