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From: "Alessio Massaro" <masariello AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: RE: Precision of doubles and stdio
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x <= 70.900000000000005684341886080801486968994140625DOES implyx <= 70.90000000000000568434188608080148696899414AND vice-versa!Even in 64 bits IEEE 754 the representations of the 2 numbers areidentical. Anything beyond the 34th decimal digit is made up by theprintf implementation, i.e. it' snoise.