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Re: XSL SUM BUG?

Subject: Re: XSL SUM BUG?
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:52:18 GMT
decimal error

Its not a bug, it's a feature of binary computing and numerical
calculations.
You can not store 0.1 exactly as a base 2 floating point number, so you
can not get any exact answers from any calculation involving such a
number.

Use format-number() to round to a suitable number of decimal places and
the error terms will disapear.

David

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