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From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Is .2 irrational?
Message-ID: <568@brl-sem.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 7-Jan-87 21:19:16 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  7 21:19:16 1987
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In article <1384@bunker.UUCP>, garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson) writes:
>  floating point format could
> be designed which allowed exact representation of all decimal fractions,
> up to some number of places precision.

Gee, how do you deal with 1/3?  I'm not sure how I do that even on
a decimal computer.  Perhaps you meant that can handle an exact represntation
of all fractions of the form INTEGER/(Power of 10)

-Ron