On Monday 16 December 2002 07:47 am, bitwAttb wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  Executing this in a workspace on my machine returns 'false'
> incorrectly ..
>
> ( ( 1.1 + 1.1 + 1.1) / 3.0) = ( ( 1.1 + 1.1 + 1.1 + 1.1 + 1.1 + 1.1
>  ) / 6.0 )
>
> The inspector suggests a discrepancy in the LSB of field '2' of the
> floats. I  got the same error in 3.2-4956 image and in 3.4B.    An
> Athlon 900. Thanks for any hints,
> Paul Lakin
>  -- bitwAttb

Well, ruby also gets false for that expression.
As does perl.

Why do you feel that it should return true? Remember that floating 
point numbers in computers don't follow the same rules as real 
numbers in math.

Notably, since there are a limited number of bits of precision and 
numbers are represented by a binary fraction and an exponent, you can 
only exactly represent a small subset of the possible real numbers.

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