Re: Avoiding float



Eric Sosman wrote:
[...]
However, all these conversions, no matter how accurate an
approximation you use, must eventually express the result as a
whole number of gallons or liters. [...]

Not if I use some number of the least significant digits as a
"fractional" part. As you say the value is effectively in something
like milliliters. Thanks.

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