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Re: strange behavior, out of range?
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Re: strange behavior, out of range?


  • Subject: Re: strange behavior, out of range?
  • From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 15:27:54 -0700


On May 10, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Ariel Feinerman wrote:

7.00061798 - 7.00061846 = -2.38418579e-07

That looks right to me, and Ruby confirms it:

$ irb
>> (7.00061798 - 7.00061846) / 2.0
=> -2.39999999873675e-07

Are you asking what that "e-07" means? It's normal scientific notation for "times ten to the minus seven".

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