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Re:Microsoft Paint Preview [video] by ygra on Monday October 10, 2016 @08:57AM (#12676779)
Trying out Raymond's suggestion[½] to test arithmetic precision (1 / 3 * 10000000000 - 3333333333 =. The result is one third exactly. Type 1/x - 3 = and you get zero back) yields the exact result with calc on Windows 10. It's definitely not standard floating-point.

[½] from here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040525-00/?p=...

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Re:Microsoft Paint Preview [video] by exDM69 on Monday October 10, 2016 @01:42PM (#12678618)
Must have been something else but I recall a big fuss over incorrect results from calc.exe when Win10 came out.

It's still inferior to the old calculator even if it has been fixed to give correct results.

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