Bug or is it me?

[Rogelio Nodal]

Chosechu wrote:

>Rogelio Nodal wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello List:
>>
>>    Is this a bug?Or is it me?
>>    
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>[code]
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>Floating-point numbers (be it float or double) are just one
>representation for numbers, they do not have infinite precision
>like you can have in the purely theoretical world of mathematics.
>This representation has been chosen for many reasons you should
>be aware of. You should also know about its limitations.
>The following paper is a must-read if you need to work with
>floating-point numbers:
>
>What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point
>Arithmetic
>http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
>(you can find PDF versions of the above if you google the title).
>
>You will understand why operations == <= >= != do not have
>meaning for floating-point numbers and how to actually perform
>them when you need to.
>
>But this has nothing to do with Ubuntu. Thanks for taking the
>discussion off-list.
>
>Cheers
>  
>
First thanks a lot for your answer. I really apreciate the link. Sorry
if the fact that I asked a c++ question in the ubuntu-users list
bothered you. I did not mean to bother you.

    Rogelio.