Re: Strange results when adding two double primitives - Java 1.5.0_04

Oliver Wong wrote:

Indeed. It is *so* unbelievable to me, in fact, that I suspect it's a
form of trolling, rather than genuinely misguided programmers.

Hmm, yes. Looking at, for instance, this comment on the "bug" report:

It is ridicule and stupid.
0.33 can be store like a float or a double.
I think the IEEE 754 rounding implementation is bugged.
It's scandalous! Think about financial or scientific
application !

I would say that whoever posted that was indulging a somewhat warped[*] sense
of humour.

-- chris

[*] still pretty funny, though.


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