Inherent imprecision of floating point variables

[Tony Olekshy]

In <b3f.2688bfce at ibmpcug.co.uk>, dylan at ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) writes:
>
> > [question about]	while (f != 10.0) f += 0.1;
>
> If its all to do with conversion routines, why doesn't this stop when f
> reaches 10?
	[which was a rhetorical question, to the poster he had quoted]

I add...

It does not stop at (f == 10.0) simply because no-one said f = 10.0;
The converse (why did it stop, if it had) is more complex.
Next question.

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