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"HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> writes:
> What if it's an accounting program.  Is it still the 'right answer'?
> It's not a design error because the program works fine on a system
> with higher precision floats.

It's still the right answer because if doubles are part of the
requirement and you used a system with singles, it's at least a
deployment error if not a design error.