Re: sprintf() oddness

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Jochem Maas wrote:

> Per Jessen wrote:
>> Christoph Boget wrote:
>> 
>>> Why does
>>>
>>> sprintf( '%.03f', 0.15250000 )
>>> return 0.152 while
>>> sprintf( '%.03f', 0.15750000 )
>>> return 0.158?
> 
> most likely it's an artifact of the fact that
> the binary representations of those floating point
> values are not exact e.g. 0.1575 is represented
> in binary as something like 0.157500001
> 
> something like that.

I just tried it in plain C - same result.  


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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