From: "Damian Yerrick" <snews AT pineight DOT 8m DOT comMUNIST-PIGS-AOL>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP BUG!!!!!!! ???
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"Jens Luedicke" <jens AT irs-net DOT com> wrote:
> > but 1.0 gets converted to 0!!!!
> > and even worse, 2.0 gets converted to 2... strange.. not a general
> > behaviour...

bug?

0.33333+0.33333+0.33333 != 1.00000

That's almost exactly how a computer sees tenths.
0.1 ~= 0x0.199999


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