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From: "Borde, Andreas" <andreas.borde@jp.bosch.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: calculation error with built-in command CTRL + J?!
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:59:10 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ftukqh$tbi$1@news4.fe.internet.bosch.com> (raw)

Hello,

I calculated
(* 12 2.6) with the built in command CTRL + J and got
31.200000000000003

It is the same for
(* 2.6 12)

I am wondering about the tailing numbers after 31.2!

If I calculate (* 2.5 12) then the result is the expected 30.0.

Can someone tell me the reason?  Is there something wrong with
my calcuation?

I am using the official release:

This is GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195)
 of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE

under Win2k.

Thank you and kind regards

Borde, Andreas




             reply	other threads:[~2008-04-14  3:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-14  3:59 Borde, Andreas [this message]
2008-04-14  6:11 ` calculation error with built-in command CTRL + J?! David Hansen
2008-04-14  6:24 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-04-14  6:40 ` Sven Joachim

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