On Wednesday, 1994-10-12  Rob Basler wrote to David Noon about
"C/Set++" as follows:

RB> DN>In binary floating point, there is no exact repesentation of 26.4; the
RB> DN>nearest you can get using IEEE single precision is 26.39996. Your
RB> DN>decimal number has been rounded to the nearest binary floating point
RB> DN>number. You can try double or long double instead of float, but these
RB> DN>just reduce the rounding error rather than eliminate it.
RB> 
RB> Interesting.  Under BC1.0 for OS/2 I got 26.4.

Hi Rob,

Did you format it to maximum precision? Or simply let the print
routines round the display back to decimal?

Regards

Dave

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