[Tutor] is this a bug?

Gregor Lingl glingl@aon.at
Wed, 2 Jan 2002 18:49:54 +0100


I understand; Remco braught it to the point:

> The problem is that, when converted to binary, 66.6 is repeating. There is
> no way to represent it exactly in a finite amount of binary digits.
>

It depends on the number beeing a repeating binary, not a repeating decimal
Gregor