in reply to Numeric Comparisons Randomly Giving the Wrong Result

What might possibly cause this?
Floating point rounding errors! 
  DB<1> p 2008.000000000001
2008
  DB<2> p 2008.000000000001 == 2008

  DB<3> p 2008.000000000001 - 2008
9.09494701772928e-13

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