What are you actually trying to do? What precision (how many digits) do you really need? Moritz provided a good solution (work with integer values then scale as the last step) - what is wrong with that solution?

As an exercise try writing 1/3 as a decimal fraction in full. Let me get you started:

0.33333333333333333333333333333

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Have you figured out that you can't exactly represent 1/3 as a finite decimal fraction? In the same way you can't exactly represent 1/10 (base 10) as a finite binary fraction. This seems like a problem, but for almost all real applications for arithmetic it is not an issue. You seldom need more than a few digits of precision for an answer (although for some calculations you may need more precision for intermediate answers).

So the key questions are: what are you trying to do and how much precision do you really need? There are many possible ways to solve your problem, but a solution depends very much on what you are trying to achieve.

True laziness is hard work

In reply to Re: limit of for loop!! by GrandFather
in thread limit of for loop!! by sagar123

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