Re: Funny Comparison with Float

Brady Kelly <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:22:14 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.dotnet.clr
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> This is floating point 101. Did you not learn this in college? I knew
> it
> before college, but I do recall us going over the innards of floating
> point representation, but perhaps they didn't spell out the
> consequences
> clearly enough.
>
> -- Barry

We had a very cursory examination of floating point numbers on my diploma
course.  My only COS subject I took up to third year was OOP, via the once
seminal book by Timothy Budd.

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