Re: Decimals acting wierd : 5.3 * 3 = 15.899999999999999

On 09/29/2013 03:20 AM, Martones wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I had this problem hounting me since quite a while. I'm using double
> types in the equation above and I have this wierd precision result :
> 5.3 * 3 = 15.899999999999999
>
> This is not the first time at all and I already saw this with floats /
> without multiplication and so on. Before I spend few hours figuring
> out some test cases, can anyone give me any directions of where and
> what to search ? :)

If you know that your floats will be of a certain precision: scale,
multiply, divide. Take advantage of what you know about the problem
domain to your advantage


>
> Many thanks everyone !
>
> Ludovit
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