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#1 vanhoa

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Posted 08 September 2006 - 04:07 AM

Why the result of an exp got wrong (nealy true) when use lua.

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Posted 08 September 2006 - 07:50 AM

What makes you think this? Can you give an example?

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Posted 09 September 2006 - 04:12 PM

Maybe this:

print(789.000006)

Output: 789.00000599999998

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Posted 09 September 2006 - 05:05 PM

floating point precision... Do we really need to explain that one more time? :rolleyes:

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Posted 09 September 2006 - 07:26 PM

floating point precision... Do we really need to explain that one more time? :rolleyes:

You are right, explaining the same thing again and again is annoying, but I will answer for the last time: This is not a bug. This is normal computer arithmetics which cannot be avoided, even on super computers. Using a computer means that you accept the fact that it has limited floating point precision.
In theory, it is possible to use arbitrary floating point precision, but this is not a good idea for the ClassPad, because it costs computation time... a lot of computation time.




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