[TAG] Paul Sephton's article "A Question Of Rounding"

[Ben Okopnik]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:04:15PM +0200, Ren?? Pfeiffer wrote:
> 
> Floating point numbers aren't exact.

[blink] Pardon my ignorance, but... what's the use of them, then?
Particularly since the rounding can happen (essentially arbitrarily) in
any direction?

Also, given the above, _is_ there a way of producing a meaningful
fixed-point part of a number with precision?


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