Kene Meniru Kene.Meniru at illom.org
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Joel Goldstick wrote:

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> This is not a string, it is scientific notion for 1.53... times 10 to the
> -15th power.  Because of rounding errors caused by doing floating point
> math on in binary, you get a very small number instead of 0.
> 

I was just doing some testing and it was not equating to zero. Perhaps if I 
rounded it up I may be more successful.

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