Quoting Bart Demoen <Bart.Demoen(a)cs.kuleuven.ac.be>:
It is perhaps official CIAO mailing list policy to be overpolite and cautious in its response, but I am not one of the CIAO officials, so I can butt in like an elephant in a porcelano shop ...
You still are subject to the usual conventions of civilised behaviour, though.
I know of floating point arithmetic, but I wanted to hear a proper technical explanation, particularly concerning the inconsistency of the results and whether it would be fixed in later versions (I now know it will).
Your input to the discussion was patronising and unnecessary.
Here's what I think.
The number are represented as binary numbers. Thus, when you do 1926/100 you get 19.2600000000000000000000029. When you do 1927/100, the binary numbers may result to exactly 19.26, thus all the zeros won't be printed.
Of course, this may all be a load of bull, I know nothing of CIAO.
Katsmall the Wise
Wamberto Vasconcelos wrote:
Quoting Bart Demoen <Bart.Demoen(a)cs.kuleuven.ac.be>:
It is perhaps official CIAO mailing list policy to be overpolite and cautious in its response, but I am not one of the CIAO officials, so I can butt in like an elephant in a porcelano shop ...
You still are subject to the usual conventions of civilised behaviour, though.
I know of floating point arithmetic, but I wanted to hear a proper technical explanation, particularly concerning the inconsistency of the results and whether it would be fixed in later versions (I now know it will).
Your input to the discussion was patronising and unnecessary.
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Wamberto Vasconcelos