Inherent imprecision of floating point variables

[Andrew Koenig]

In article <4186 at jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>, kaleb at mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) writes:

> Because (10.0 - 0.1) + 0.1 will never be exactly equal to 10.0.

Beg pardon?  I agree that it won't always be exactly 10.0
but `never' is a bit strong.
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