RE: Magic numbers

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 18 November 2003 13:17
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Magic numbers
> 
> 
> It is the result for 0.05 that is more surprising than the 
> result for 0.07.
> 
> You wrote your numbers using decimal ".05" or ".07" but most computers
> these days are binary machines.


What I found surprising was the lack of consistency rather than the
number of decimals shown in the result ...

7 is the only number that produces a result with many decimals...
I would expect all the numbers behave that way or to behave in the 
other way i.e. only a couple of decimals... but I didn't expect it
to behave in a different way depending on the number.

7 is the only number that shows that behaviour. I tried all the others,
2,3,4,5,6,8 and 9 and only 7 behaves that way...

I guess I'll have to start using format-number when the number is 7. ;-)


Regards,
Yago

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