From: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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J.W. Dare <jwdare AT novia DOT net> wrote in news:lsq7vts49kmni80sbraq83ju4dq9rea2ta AT 4ax DOT com:
> 
> As an aside, I'm not yet familiar with precision issues concerning
> floating point numbers.  Can someone point me in the direction of a
> good book or web page that discusses this information? 

see 

http://docs.sun.com/htmlcoll/coll.648.2/iso-8859-1/NUMCOMPGD/ncg_goldberg.html

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