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Re:0.30000000000000004 by poizan42 on Friday November 13, 2015 @07:45AM (#10559507)

Just say (0.1+0.2)*10-3. That works everywhere no matter the amount of rounding.

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Re:0.30000000000000004 by static_noise on Friday November 13, 2015 @08:49AM (#10559795)

You've just invented fixed point numbers.

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Re:0.30000000000000004 by poizan42 on Friday November 13, 2015 @11:54AM (#10560816)

I'm not sure I follow? The point here was to show that a language can't represent the decimal fractions exactly.

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Re:0.30000000000000004 by recursive on Friday November 13, 2015 @12:06PM (#10560893)

But they can. Many languages have decimal and rational types.

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