Re: Floating point and precision loss - a bug?

[Luís Santos <lsantos@...>]

Sorry, people..

should have finished the wiki page reading..

Thanks!

P.S.: I am Luís Eduardo 'Jason' Santos

Roberto Ierusalimschy escreveu:

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

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Is it a bug in the 5.1.2 release?
      

No, it's not a bug. 1000.2 cannot be represented exactly in floating point.
Please read http://lua-users.org/wiki/FloatingPoint .
    

It is worth repeating:
 
  Please read http://lua-users.org/wiki/FloatingPoint .

(Completely off topic: sorry to ask, but what is the relationship
between "Jason" and "Luis Santos"?)

-- Roberto

  

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