[erlang-bugs] Please ignore the previous post

John Haugeland stonecypher@REDACTED
Thu May 15 18:48:45 CEST 2008


As many are now pointing out, my error is that floating point is a limited
accuracy medium.  I was under the misimpression that Erlang had infinite
precision libraries in use for all numeric types; this turns out only to be
true of integers.

Pierpaolo, Tony, parsedtree, thank you each for your cluesticks.
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