Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:

>Hans-Martin Mosner <hmm at heeg.de> wrote:
>	The problem is not that Floats can't be used for reasonably exact 
>	arithmetic, it's that folks tend to believe that numbers such as
>	0.1 can be represented exactly.
>
>Yes, but that has NOTHING to do with the problem this thread is about.
>
:-( which I realized when I read your response.
I had confused this thread with one in which the poster complained that
(0.1 + 0. + 0.1) / 3 was not equal to (0.1 + 0. + 0.1+ 0.1 + 0. + 0.1) / 6
or something like that.

Sorry,
Hans-Martin