On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Greg Reagle <greg.rea...@umbc.edu> wrote: > On 12/10/2015 12:57 PM, FRIGN wrote: >> >> What does the base have to do with the results? > > > A lot. For instance, "Many non-integral values, such as decimal 0.2, have > an infinite place-value representation in binary (.001100110011...) but have > a finite place-value in binary-coded decimal (0.0010). Consequently a system > based on binary-coded decimal representations of decimal fractions avoids > errors representing and calculating such values." from > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal#Advantages >
Ala the famous IEEE 754 example that became popular again with JavaScript [0]. [0] http://0.30000000000000004.com/
