Re: double with precision

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:25:16 -0400, "Roy Gourgi" <royng@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

Just out of curiosity why can't the number 1.74 be represented exactly with
a double?

because 1/100 is a repeater when expressed in binary just as 1/3 is a
repeater when expressed in decimal.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/floatingpoint.html
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