Here's a challenge for floating point lovers.

Rahul Dhesi dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com
Thu Feb 7 06:44:47 AEST 1991


In <1700 at bbxsda.UUCP> scott at bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) writes:

>The designers didn't necessarily understand business arithmetic.

On the contrary, my opinion is that businesspeople don't understand
arithmetic.  Life for all of us would be so much simpler if all
business calculations assumed some reasonable fuzz value and stopped
worrying about lost or gained pennies.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
UUCP:  oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi



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