Re: Glaring Excel calc bug.


On 29-Jun-2007, "Earl Kiosterud" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The only potential surprise here is that 0.01 cannot be exactly represented.

Ah, an explanation at last as to why my Japanese calculator gives
0.999999 for 2/2, I thought it was the battery going flat.
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