Re: msxml sum() and precision problem

> and the stunning browser-result:

I haven't checked exactly what IEEE arithmetic should produce in that
case, but why do you find it surprising? 1/100 can not be exactly
expressed in binary floating point (just as 1/3 can not be expressed in
finite length base 10 decimals). Since none of the three numbers you are
adding up may be expressed exactly, and neither can the sum, it isn't
surprising that any binary system used to encode the addition is out in
the least significant position.

David

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