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Actually 0.1 decimal can't be represented as a finite binary fraction so suffers from rounding errors and the accumulation of rounding errors that OP is seeing.

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Re^3: strange result for a simple addition ??
by roboticus (Chancellor) on Aug 26, 2006 at 04:21 UTC
    Right...that's the situation I was giving an example of.

    --roboticus

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