Re: This calculation is just wrong / computer can't count!

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"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:igjlg357ac50g7hhitp5cdotbf76jbhjq9@xxxxxxxxxx
OK, I give up. You really are irredeemably stupid. How many times does
the obvious have
to be explained to you?

The result 0.83333333333333337 is mathematically correct, reliable, and
only your
continuing refusal to accept reality is the problem. The final digit is
being converted
absolutely reliably. It is absolutely, positively, beyond any shadow of a
doubt, the
CORRECT answer, and your insistence that it is not accurate, and all your
allegations
about accuracy and reliability, are simply asinine. The final digit is
NOT random, it is
precise and well-defined.

And you seem to be completely and utterly ignorant to the question being
asked. In decimal mathematics, which is what I am trying to calculate and
display (and have explained that umpteed times), 1/3 IS NOT 0.3333337, or
0.337 or 0.7. In the same way 25/30 IS NOT 0.8333333337, 0.8337 or 0.87.


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