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10960 floating point is What every programmer should know about floating point: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html simcop2387
9873 floating point is IEEE 754 Floating point numbers cannot represent most decimal fractions precisely. See: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html and http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2999#comic - sprintf may help thrig
9843 floating point is IEEE 754 Floating point numbers cannot represent most decimal fractions precisely. See: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html and http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2999#comic thrig
9800 floating point is IEEE 754 Floating point numbers cannot represent most decimal fractions precisely. See: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html - <dub>your precision mantissa kung-fu is no good! ahahahahaha!</dub> thrig
9799 floating point is IEEE 754 Floating point numbers cannot represent most decimal fractions precisely. See: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html - <dub>your precision mantissa kung-fu is no good!</dub> thrig
8257 floating point is IEEE 754 Floating point numbers cannot represent most decimal fractions precisely. See: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html rindolf
7865 floating point is IEEE 754 Floating point numbers cannot represent most decimal fractions precisely. See: http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html rindolf