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- Subject: Re: weird bug?
- From: "Steve Williams" <stevewilliams@...>
- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 08:18:21 +1000
> >I've been using Lua on QNX RtP lately, and this morning I noticed
something strange: the number 65 is always displayed as 64.999999...
>
[...]
> >Maybe the function that converts a number to a string?
>
> Lua uses sprintf for this. Perhaps sprintf is broken in QNX.
Sounds like normal floating point inaccuracies when trying the entire
fractional part of a number. This happens on every platform. If you
restrict the precision to two or three when displaying the number, then you
will get 65.00 or 65.000.
Steve 'Sly' Williams - Code Monkey - http://www.kromestudios.com
