One subtle thing is the difference between an ideal number, its
floating-point representation, and its printed form.
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 5:46 AM, <steve_bagw...@sil.org> wrote:
> Thanks guys. That's very helpful. I forgot that what I saw (and re-used)
> as the "height" was not precise enough to make it comparable.
>
>
> On Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 3:33:38 PM UTC-5, Steve Bagwell wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> This looks like a Golang bug to me. What do you all think?
>>
>>> I have this function ...
>>
>> func getArea(base, side int64) float64 {
>>> var height, fSide, area float64
>>> fSide = float64(side)
>>> halfBase := float64(base) / 2.0
>>> height = math.Sqrt(fSide*fSide - halfBase*halfBase)
>>> area = halfBase * height
>>> fmt.Printf("halfBase: %f, height: %f, Area: %f\n", halfBase, height,
>>> area)
>>>
>>
>>
>>> hb2 := 151414.5
>>> h2 := 262256.452301
>>> fmt.Printf("Area 2: %f\n", hb2 * h2)
>>>
>>
>>
>>> return area
>>> }
>>
>>
>> When I call it with `result := getArea(302829, 302828)`, I get this
>> output ...
>>
>> halfBase: 151414.500000, height: 262256.452301, Area: 39709429597.000000
>>> Area 2: 39709429596.929764
>>
>>
>> I could see how some kind of rounding could produce the first Area
>> value. But in that case, why wouldn't Area2 be rounded as well?
>>
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