<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414319449625_5029"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414319449625_5151"><font size="3" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414319449625_5272">Eric, it might be useful to read this: </font></span></div><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-family: arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414319449625_5155"><a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.22.6768" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414319449625_5003" style="font-size: medium; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CiteSeerX — What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating Point Arithmetic</a><br></h2><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414319449625_5005"><font size="3">I know I liked it.</font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414319449625_5005"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414319449625_5005"><font size="3">Best,</font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414319449625_5005"><font size="3">Thomas</font></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Sunday, October 26, 2014 9:35 AM, 张栋 <zd2559@126.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv3398406893"><div style="line-height:1.7;color:#000000;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;"><div>Hello the maillist member:<br>I am new in Erlang,Please Help me.<br><br>When I try some <span class="yiv3398406893ordinary-span-edit">multiplication, I got the some</span><span class="yiv3398406893"> unexpected</span><span class="yiv3398406893"> answer</span><span class="yiv3398406893ordinary-span-edit"> about the following expression.<br><br>Please help!<br><br>List:<br><br></span>23> [1.1*1.1,1.1*1.2,1.1*1.3,1.1*1.4,1.1*1.5].<br>[1.2100000000000002,1.32,1.4300000000000002,1.54,<br> 1.6500000000000001]<br><br>24> [1.2*1.2,1.2*1.3,1.2*1.4,1.2*1.5,1.2*1.6].<br>[1.44,1.56,1.68,1.7999999999999998,1.92]<br><br>Thank you for your time.<br><br>Eric D. Zhang In China.<br><br><span class="yiv3398406893op_dict3_font24 yiv3398406893op_dict3_marginRight"></span></div></div><br><br><span title="neteasefooter"><span id="yiv3398406893netease_mail_footer"></span></span></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>erlang-questions mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org" class="removed-link" href="">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a><br><a target="_blank" class="removed-link" href="">http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions</a><br><br><br></div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>