Re: Strange add results

[Jim Whitehead II <jnwhiteh@...>]

2010/11/20 Alexey Malyshev <malma@kaluga.net>:
> What's wrong with this code?
>
> local i = 1
> i = i + 0.2
> i = i + 0.2
> i = i + 0.2
> i = i + 0.2
> i = i + 0.2
> print(i)
> print(tostring( i ~= 2))

Because under the floating point specification, 0.2 cannot be
accurately represented.

- Jim