From: Martin Ambuhl <mambuhl AT earthlink DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Problem with floats
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 21:05:27 -0500
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Victor Senderov wrote:
> 
>  Hi,
> I wrote a test a program in order to see how djgpp will display a float
> and was puzzled by the following:
> 
> #include <iomanip.h>
> #include <iostream.h>
> int main()
> {
>  cout << setprecision(25);
>  double test = 37000.95000;
>  cout << test;
>  return 0;
> }
> 
> Output : 37000.94999999999708961695
> Can anybody explain why it outputs something so incorrect? 

How incorrect IS it?

The "correct" value was 37000.95000000000000
The printed value was 37000.94999999999709
The error was    -0.00000000000291
Which is a relative error of -7.86378e-15%

What in heaven's name did you expect?  Since when was 5 a power of 2?


>Also, I
> compiled this under other compiler and it worked ok -- the other
> compiler displayed 37000.95


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