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Re: Strange problem [message #28410 is a reply to message #28124]

Wed, 05 December 2001 07:40

Jeff Hester
Messages: 21
Registered: December 2001

Junior Member

The danger of IDL is that it allows people access to tools about which
they have no knowledge.
If the fact that floating point representations of numbers have limited
precision comes as a
shock, one can only wonder...

Is there an emoticon for "shudder in abject fear"?

"Pavel A. Romashkin" wrote:

> Please enlighten me why would one want to use a floating point value as
> a counter?
>
> Pavel
>
> Andre Kyme wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> type: for i=0., 0.8., 0.1 do print,i
>> That's bad isn't it?i

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Jeff Hester
Professor
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Arizona State University
jhester@asu.edu

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		strange problem: Alarm Clock????.... By: stl on Tue, 09 August 1994 09:05
		Re: Strange problem By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 26 November 2001 10:15
		Re: Strange problem By: Andre Kyme on Mon, 26 November 2001 14:04
		Re: Strange problem By: Jeff Hester on Wed, 05 December 2001 07:40
		Re: Strange problem By: Martin Downing on Mon, 26 November 2001 07:00
		Re: Strange problem By: Andre Kyme on Mon, 26 November 2001 14:10
		Re: Strange problem By: Bhautik Joshi on Sun, 25 November 2001 19:55
		Re: Strange problem By: Bhautik Joshi on Sun, 25 November 2001 17:38

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