Re: Floating point inaccuracies

[Andrew Lentvorski <bsder@...>]

On 11/28/10 3:39 PM, Tony Finch wrote:
> On 28 Nov 2010, at 22:41, Andrew Lentvorski<bsder@allcaps.org>  wrote:
> > Switch to Decimal Floating Point: http://speleotrove.com/decimal/
> That just moves the problem from 1/10 to 1/3 etc.
True, but most people understand why you can't add 1/3 repeatedly and 
wind up with 1.
They don't understand why you can't add 1/10 repeatedly and wind up with 1.

-a