Re: [sc-users] Re: How many years?

[Batuhan Bozkurt <batuhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually I don't think this is about floating point representation, but math itself. :)

As weird as it might seem, 0.99999999999... (to infinity) actually equals to 1.

1 / 3 is 0.3333333333333........ (to infinity)

0.3333333........ * 3 equals to 0.99999..... which is 1.

Think of it this way:

(1 / 3) * 3 = 1 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...

Batuhan Bozkurt

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On Sep 19, 2010, at 6:05 AM, Lucas Samaruga wrote:

thanks, I should study the floating point representation in this cases.

2010/9/18 James Harkins <jamshark70@xxxxxxxxx>

On 9/19/10 6:57 AM, Lucas Samaruga wrote:

I have this but lacks precision...

a = 1 / 3; // 0.33333333333333
b = a * 3; // 1 why?
c = a + a + a; // 1 why?

// hmmmmm...

0.33333333333333 + 0.33333333333333 + 0.33333333333333; // 0.99999999999999
d = 1 - 0.99999999999999;
d * 60 * 60 * 24 * 365 * 3174

// ...mmmmmmmm...

Posting precision is less than calculation precision IIRC. (If it always posted full precision, 1.1 would look like 1.100000000001 and that would freak you out for normal use.)

But that led me to this bizarrerie:

(1/3).postcs

// prints:
0.333333
0.33333333333333

^^^ huh? The compile string has less precision than the normal asString? Smells like a bug.
hjh


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