Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 12:09:44 +0100 (MET)
From: Jens Bischoff <bischoff AT airbus DOT dasa DOT de>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP BUG!!!!!!! ???
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Niklas Pettersson schrieb am 06.01.00 um 10:45 Uhr:

> I think I have found an error in DJGPP... It's illustrated by the following
> example:

This is not an error. It's a rounding problem. 
The double value 0.1 cannot be represented exactly as a binary
number. It's machine representation (x) is not exact 0.1 but a little
smaller. So, ten times this value (x) is not exactly 1 but something 
like 0.999999...., and when you cast this to an integer number you
will get "0".

Jens

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