| From: | Andrew Crowe |
| Date: | 27 Sep 2000 at 19:19:54 |
| Subject: | Re: To sum it up |
Hi Everybody,
> Using the standard Workbench 'Calculator' program enter in 561.27 -
> 561.22 and see what the results are.
>
> I think my 'Calculator' could be using an early Pentuim chip :)
It looks like the problem is simply the C= calculator uses single
presision fp numbers, meaning that it can't quite hold all decimal
numbers, so they have to be stored as +/- .000000001 etc.
Plus if you + 561.22 again you get 561.27 :)
Anyway, just use a real calculator :) The c= one is pretty crap :)
Casio fx-7700GBus is the one I used, got me though my A-Level maths
:)
See ya :)
Quote carefully and read all ADMIN:README mails