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Subject: Re: Java oddity

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:50:16 09/10/02

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On September 10, 2002 at 13:38:16, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On September 09, 2002 at 23:06:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On September 09, 2002 at 12:05:27, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On September 09, 2002 at 10:04:12, Ed Panek wrote:
>>>
>>>Which compiler did you use?
>>>
>>>It is exactly these reasons that i was very sick from
>>>intel c++ compiler, because it is doing everything
>>>wrong with casts of floating point math.
>>>you write 'java oddity' above. intel j++ exists nowadays?
>>
>>It isn't a compiler problem it is an IEEE floating point problem in that
>>.1 can not be comverted exactly, it becomes an approximation.
>
>Yes that's what he is talking about, but i'm talking about
>other major bugs inthe compiler which causes random values.

Please show me one.  Your previous example didn't cause any problems
whatsoever to the compiler...


>
>>
>>2.01 == 2.009997 roughly.  * 1000 = 2009.997, truncated to a long gives
>>2009.  No bug.  No error.   Floating point conversion followed by integer
>>conversion makes this natural.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>>long x;
>>>>double y;
>>>>
>>>>y = 2.01;
>>>>x = (long)(y * 1000);
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>guess what x equals? ...
>>>>
>>>>No, not 2010, but 2009 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>>>
>>>>Ed



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