Re: Comment about IEEE floating-point rounding... (was: Setting Float Precision in Lua.c)

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Subject: Re: Comment about IEEE floating-point rounding... (was: Setting Float Precision in Lua.c)
From: Viacheslav Usov <via.usov@...>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:55:23 +0200

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 3:29 PM Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@guerrag.com> wrote:

> python: 10**97 % 97

Hmm. But why not 1e97 % 97? Ah, it produces a floating point value, silly me :)

Cheers,

References:
- Comment about IEEE floating-point rounding... (was: Setting Float Precision in Lua.c), sur-behoffski
- Re: Comment about IEEE floating-point rounding... (was: Setting Float Precision in Lua.c), Hugo Musso Gualandi
- Re: Comment about IEEE floating-point rounding... (was: Setting Float Precision in Lua.c), Albert Chan
- Re: Comment about IEEE floating-point rounding... (was: Setting Float Precision in Lua.c), Albert Chan
- Re: Comment about IEEE floating-point rounding... (was: Setting Float Precision in Lua.c), Dirk Laurie
- Re: Comment about IEEE floating-point rounding... (was: Setting Float Precision in Lua.c), Viacheslav Usov
- Re: Comment about IEEE floating-point rounding... (was: Setting Float Precision in Lua.c), Javier Guerra Giraldez