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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: floating point comparison
Date: 1997/09/05
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James said

<< Not quite.  I have made the decision to represent a real number in
 a way restricted to a finite number of digits.  It does not matter
 if they are binary or decimal.  (Yes, I know what you probably
 meant to write, but saying "decimal value" carries various meanings
 as well.)>>


Actually I meant decimal, see your original post, you specifically have
given an example of a number representable exactly in decimal, and not
in binary, and this is indeed a common case.

After all input to a program can never be real numbers, it can only be
representations of real numbers!