Path: csiph.com!news.nrbbs.org!border-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 06:25:11 +0000 From: steve g Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: .5 against 0.5f References: <11bpvs7$1e6kc$2@dont-email.me> <11bqnvh$1np7s$1@dont-email.me> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 02:25:11 -0400 Message-ID: <87fqxqnxyw.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WOIWPOg7NDE2SYg/RzrV2YqEMsw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 13 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-fCOMFueXd13TzqWsTcEtjAwl0no363DWnJ7m6mE6mlABYM2JOthTrm6WDox/8TL2ACwAxTkzyTBrswu!8/3NB7yMA6aVKIwonizQDYtYpmVTSwT3tud76E34qOrwK10= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:403688 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes: > I ordered a couple of blu-rays from amazon last week, and the > confirmation email had the following for the total price: > > Total > 75.71000000000001 USD > > Appears they may be using FP instead of integer fixed point arithmetic > for pricing. Try asking them for (ceiling 75.71000000000001)