After some testing I just decided to instead round the numbers to 2 decimals instead. Thank you for the heads up though.
On Sunday, February 19, 2017 at 5:42:15 PM UTC+11, Michael Jones wrote: > > This feels unlikely. > > You might want to verify that the calculation matches your expectations > exactly at many values. Ian's representation argument applies at every word > size it may be that you just hit a "lucky" happenstance. > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 11:59 PM <ngju...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Thank you for your help. I managed to get the result I needed by using 32 >> bit floats. >> >> >> On Sunday, February 19, 2017 at 3:36:06 PM UTC+11, ngju...@gmail.com >> wrote: >>> >>> I am trying to multiply an int16 and float64 in Golang 1.8 but the >>> result it returns is incorrect. I need this number to be exact for some >>> hash verification. Any ideas why this might be happening? >>> >>> int16(10) // 10 >>> float64(int16(10)) // 10 >>> >>> float64(3.99) // 3.99 >>> >>> float64(int16(10)) * float64(3.99) // 39.900000000000006 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > Michael T. Jones > michae...@gmail.com <javascript:> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
