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Re^3: Okay! What!?!?!?

by davido (Cardinal)
on Apr 23, 2014 at 14:11 UTC ( [id://1083366]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: Okay! What!?!?!?
in thread Okay! What!?!?!?

There must be some behind the scenes DWIMery, because according to the documentation, FreePascal's "real" type maps directly to a standard IEEE 754 "double" on most architectures, and as such, should suffer from the same shortcomings of representing floating point numbers in base 2.


Dave

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