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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Float conversion
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Dmitry A. Kazakov expounded in news:1q5zc0ais535h$.1jqwfxhj9cflc$.dlg@
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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.

I.e. "... inexact for _all_ numbers".

Some fractions do express themselves exactly in binary
(like 0.5).

That is why it may "seem" to work some of the time ;-)

Warren