Floating numbers
Grant Edwards
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Thu Aug 12 17:20:18 EDT 2010
On 2010-08-12, Bradley Hintze <bradley.h at aggiemail.usu.edu> wrote:
> Is there a way I can keep my floating point number as I typed it?
No.
> For example, I want 34.52 to be 34.52 and NOT 34.5200000002.
You can't represent 34.52 using base-2 IEEE floating point (the HW
floating point format used by pretty much all modern computers).
34.5200000002 is as close as you can get.
When you enter a base-10 floating-point number, the computer will use
the closest base-2 IEEE floating point number.
Here are the nitty-gritty details:
http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
Can you explain what your actual problem is?
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