| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | djackson(at)cpsgroup(dot)com (Jackson, DeJuan) |
| Cc: | daveh(at)insightdist(dot)com, sferac(at)bo(dot)nettuno(dot)it, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] 123.45 - 123 = 0.45 |
| Date: | 1998-12-15 16:53:26 |
| Message-ID: | 199812151653.LAA16720@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > Yes, someone pointed this out to me in private e-mail, and I wrote a C
> > program to confirm it. I just had never seen such rounding on such
> > small non-irrational numbers.
> But, the problem is that it is irrational in base 2 (or at least so many
> digits that it won't fit).
Ah, I figured that out after I sent the message.
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