[ic] Screwey Math

Jon Jensen jon at endpoint.com
Thu Nov 11 22:58:31 EST 2004


On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Russell Mann wrote:

> Any idea why IC thinks
> 
> 86.85 - 86.85 = 1.4210854715202e-14
> 
> And
> 
> 46.9 - 46.9 = 7.105427357601e-15
> 
> This is a new feature, not sure why it started.

I really doubt this is Interchange per se. That looks like typical 
floating point rounding problems. This is mentioned in the Perl 
documentation. I'm not sure why you're running into it now and not before, 
though. Sorry ...

Jon


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