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Re: Strange bug


From: Hacksaw
Subject: Re: Strange bug
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:28:31 -0500
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0smp i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010115

Hacksaw wrote:

(+ 20.00 9.99 9.99 18.00 11.99 9.99 9.99 3.25 3.00 9.99 18.00 9.99
11.50 9.99)
155.67000000000002

GNU Emacs 20.5.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of Mon Feb 21 2000 on porky.devel.redhat.com

glibc-2.1.3-15

RH 6.2

Two people have written me saying this is a precision error that is to be 
expected.

Folks, precision errors happen at the ends of arrays, not the beginning.

Also, I'm ADDING. Precision errors typically happen on division or multiplication. (Mostly just division).

The only computational error one could expect on adding is overflow.

Further replies may be posted to the newsgroup, which I am now monitoring.




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