On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:50:12 -0800 Louis Santillan <lpsan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/ > Did the JavaScript-hipsters just discover this?
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