[erlang-questions] In Erlang , {1.1*1.1.} show me the answer is 1.2100000000000002, why?

Anders Nygren anders.nygren@REDACTED
Sun Oct 26 18:35:12 CET 2014


Because for most of history it has been enough to count one, two, many.

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 6:50 AM, Valentin Micic <valentin@REDACTED>
wrote:

> How did we manage to survive as spices for this long?
>
> V/
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> On 26 Oct 2014, at 2:33 PM, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote:
>
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> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 8:24 AM, 张栋 <zd2559@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> When I try some multiplication, I got the some unexpected answer about
>> the following expression.
>>
>
> Hi!
>
> In addition to what everyone else has said, you may want to search the
> archives. There is a couple of posts by Richard O. Keefe which explains
> this in great detail. If my memory serves, he actually ends up arguing that
> every language which does not write 1.2100000000000002 is lying to you.
>
>
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> J.
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