Floating point and precision loss - a bug?

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Subject: Floating point and precision loss - a bug?
From: Luís Santos <lsantos@...>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 12:53:38 -0300

Hi folks,

I have found a disturbing behaviour in the VM regarding floating pointcalculations.


Code:
n = 1000.2
print(n - 1000)
-- result: 0.20000000000005

Is it a bug in the 5.1.2 release?

Jason

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