Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!adm!KJBSF%SLACVM.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu From: KJBSF%SLACVM.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Re: Is .2 irrational? Message-ID: <2336@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Wed, 14-Jan-87 12:47:53 EST Article-I.D.: brl-adm.2336 Posted: Wed Jan 14 12:47:53 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Jan-87 00:43:06 EST Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 16 Date: 14 January 1987, 09:28:14 PST From: Kevin J. Burnett x3330To: Subject: Re: Re: Is .2 irrational? 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) I would think that 'up to some number of places precision' should have meant something to you. The phrase would suggest to me that the author you are quoting meant that, say, up to 5 decimal places, 1/3 = .33333 .