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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Not quite bug in math stuff
- Message-ID: <92347.231145DMTSI@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- From: Dmitry Teytelman <DMTSI@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Date: Saturday, 12 Dec 1992 23:11:45 EST
- References: <1992Dec13.032953.4975@tc.cornell.edu>
- Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
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- In article <1992Dec13.032953.4975@tc.cornell.edu>, kutcha@eos.acm.rpi.edu
- (Phillip Rzewski) says:
- >
- > I don't do much stuff with math under Linux, so I never ran into this
- >before. I'm sure someone else has come across this, it's probably quite
- >documented somewhere. But it took me rather by surprise.
- >
- > Consider the program:
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- Source deleted...
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- > And of course the output:
- >
- >1.99999999999999977795539507496869
- >1
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- I tried this program. It gives 2.00000000000000000000000000000000.
- Are you using FPU or emulator? I have a 486, i.e. FPU.
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- Dmitry
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