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echo: os2prog
to: Murray Lesser
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1997-01-31 11:23:44
subject: Floating point feature w

ML>
  >                                         For best results, one should
  > avoid floating-point calculations entirely, particularly if the result
  > is a matter of life and death (or  money); something that is very
  > difficult to do at times.
ML>

  I'm sitting here wondering why anyone would want to take the sine of a
  monetary amount ... (-:

  > JdeBP <
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