Re: [OT] Really need Comments! very strange bug that happens only on Linux.

["Randal L. Schwartz" <me...@stonehenge.com>]

>>>>> "Vlad" == Vlad Safronov <vl...@yandex-team.ru> writes:

Vlad> "3238200"? The answer is NO! Try this example on your Linux box

Vlad> ResultSum = 10000;
Vlad> Sum = 323.82;

Vlad> the Buffer value is very strange! I have no ideas how Buffer can be 3238199!
Vlad> FreeBSD (old 3.x) works well and Buffer=3238200 as it should be, but on
Vlad> Linux 6.2, 7.0 it is 3238199..

Vlad> Any ideas?

Yes.  Learn that 1/10 doesn't have a precise representation in binary,
so *all* floating point numbers are "approximate".

Perhaps you've just not gotten bitten before.  Welcome to adulthood. :)

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Re: [OT] Really need Comments! very strange bug that happens only on Linux.

[Ged Haywood <ge...@www2.jubileegroup.co.uk>]

Hi all,

On 19 Feb 2002, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

> Yes.  Learn that 1/10 doesn't have a precise representation in binary,
> so *all* floating point numbers are "approximate".

Well, maybe not 0.5, 0.25,... :)

73,
Ged.