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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Float conversion
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On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:23:42 -0700 (PDT), Henrique wrote:

> I have some problems in converting float variables in Ada. Look at the
> code below.
> 
> Why var4 is not equal var1?

Because they are not. Floating-point operations are inexact.

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