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From: guign@mails.selgrad.org
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: strange behaviour of (floor .)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:25:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091228212538.GA30883@shoikan.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B390A2B.1020501@bioch.ox.ac.uk>

Hej...

> > The actual result shoud be 34.
> That's one of the answers you will get if you use a computer to 
> calculate the results.
... what every computer scientist should know about floating point
numbers... ;)

seems like I didn't think about it, sorry :)

the number in my example is in fact not exactly represented, the
approximation is 12.33999999999999985789, and so, well... :)

thanks :)





  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-28 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-28 17:02 strange behaviour of (floor .) guign
2009-12-28 19:42 ` Paul Emsley
2009-12-28 21:25   ` guign [this message]
2010-01-03 16:17 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-01-03 17:43   ` guign
2010-01-03 20:51   ` Keith Wright
2010-01-03 20:16     ` Linas Vepstas

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