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floating point math results question

Courageous jkraska at san.rr.com
Fri Jan 25 11:01:50 EST 2002 
>The results should be 0.8 and that's it.

First, this question is raised here often. Search http://www.dejanews.com
for detailed discussion on the matter.

Second, as an academic exercise, you may now attempt to represent the
number 0.8 as a 32 bit binary value. Summarize and we'll review. :-)

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