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On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> IOW: float is a poor approximation to =E2=84=9D.

Of course it's a poor approximation. That's because real numbers are
uncountably infinite, so it's rather tricky to represent and
manipulate them efficiently. IEEE 754 gives us practicality rather
than purity.

ChrisA