Michael Torrie wrote:
He's simply showing you the hex (binary) representation of the
floating-point number's binary representation. As you can clearly see
in the case of 1.1, there is no finite sequence that can store that.
You end up with repeating numbers.
Thanks for the explanation.
This should help you understand why you get errors
doing simple things like x/y*y doesn't quite get you back to x.
I already understood that. I just didn't understand what point he was
trying to make since he gave no explanation.
~Ethan~
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