Re: Floating point inaccuracies

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> why does this code not print "yo"?
> 
> ---snip---
> local x = 1.1
> x = x + 0.1
> if x == 1.2 then
> print("yo")
> end
> ---snap---
> 
> x is set to 1.2 but the if clause isn't entered. Can anybody explain why?

See this recent thread: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-11/msg00571.html