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Re:0.3 - 0.2 == 0.2 - 0.1 is falsy. Which language gets this... by S4M on Friday October 05, 2012 @06:39AM (#4616332)
I found once that 3.6 - 3*1.2 == 0 was false in C, and subsequently in all the languages I could find.

I suspect it is due to the fact that those number have an infinite binary expansion...

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