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Floating point arithmetic, again [Software]

posted by Ohlbe – France, 2020-12-10 22:46 (836 d 22:28 ago) – Posting: # 22131
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Hi ElMaestro,

❝ Impossible to tell if this is an effect from Excel or from some degree of streamlining within the CPU.

Same behaviour in [image]

0==(0.8-0.4-0.2-0.1-0.1)
[1] TRUE

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Regards
Ohlbe

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