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Sun Researchers: It's not always Microsofts Fault! by subbywan2006-11-19 12:55:59
  People do bad reasoning. by mwq2003-12-19 03:37:37
    Also depends on the language by ideur2003-12-19 03:55:46
      Now calculate the square root of two for me. (n/t) by mwq2003-12-19 04:21:11
        Square root of 2 in LISP by ideur2003-12-19 05:11:34
          Another example in "bc" by ideur2003-12-19 05:18:07
            Nice floating point numbers. by mwq 2003-12-19 05:22:11
bc uses "bignums", which means they can grow to an arbitrary, but finite, amount of digits (so long as you have enough memory), but they're still floating point numbers by any other name, and have most of the same accuracy problems that normal floating point numbers have.
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