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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!redwood.CS.Berkeley.EDU!jhauser
  2. From: jhauser@redwood.CS.Berkeley.EDU (John Hauser)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
  4. Subject: Re: Ignoring Least Significant Bit in a Real Compare
  5. Date: 25 Aug 1992 23:59:54 GMT
  6. Organization: University of California at Berkeley
  7. Lines: 10
  8. Message-ID: <17ehhqINN1ml@agate.berkeley.edu>
  9. References: <1992Aug21.203055.29668@aero.org> <1992Aug21.212225.2961@news.eng.convex.com> <92234.181300HDK@psuvm.psu.edu>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: redwood.cs.berkeley.edu
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  12. In article <92234.181300HDK@psuvm.psu.edu> HDK@psuvm.psu.edu (H. D. Knoble) writes:
  13. >Similarly when computing the greatest
  14. >integer less than or equal to an argument X, one would not want for
  15. >example, 1 for FLOOR(X=1.999999999999999).
  16.  
  17. Speak for yourself.  This ``one'' prefers FLOOR(1.999999999999999) = 1.
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  20. Boycott redwood.  Boycott Louisiana-Pacific.  Keep the forests.  YYYYYYYYYYY
  21. John Hauser---jhauser@cs.berkeley.edu  YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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