Floating Point Numbers

Why in c++ (0.1 + 0.1) is not equal to 0.2 ??

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Sandhya.Kishan

  • Mar 12th, 2012
 

The floating-point arithmetic in most computer languages is based on binary fractions (1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, ...) and not decimal fractions (1/10, 1/100, 1/1000, 1/1000,...)there is no ActionScript Number that is exactly equal to 0.1 because it require an infinite number of binary fractional bits.

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