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Floating-point round-off problems.

To: slug-out%samson.cadr.dialnet.symbolics.com@RELAY.CS.NET
Subject: Floating-point round-off problems.
From: "Mr. Spock" <Spock%samson.cadr.dialnet.symbolics.com@RELAY.CS.NET>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 89 11:00:00 EDT
Internet-address: SPOCK%samson.cadr.dialnet.symbolics.com@riverside.scrc.symbolics.com
Phone-number: (209)586-7422
Snail-mail-address: American Microsystems Inc. (A wholly owned subsidiary of Gould Inc.) CAD Research Lab. P.O. Box 967 Twain Harte, CA 95383

Does anyone have a hack to correct for the losing floating-point math on
these Symbolics machines?

Consider:

    (- 6 5.9) returns -> 0.099999905 instead of 0.1

Thanks,
--Mark Alexander

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