Strange bug/problem with floating point assignments

[Per Lundberg]

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 15:12, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Nope. The floating point constants you specify are not representable
> exactly in the IEEE floating point format.

Aha...   I see.  I feel kind of stupid.  ;-)

> Hence the rounding differences.
> See the section: ``Problems with floating point computations'' on
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html.

I understand.  Thank you for a very good answer!

I guess I have to store my numbers as integers in the future.  At least,
they can be trusted.  :-)

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