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| Hi all, I am dividing 4.1 by 4.1 in following manner and getting answer 2. instead of 1. Dividing 4.2 by 4.2 give 1 result, dividing 4.6 by 4.6 again give 2. Except 4.1 and 4.6 rest all numbers give 1 result. I am using IC 3.2. Any help in this (...) (26 years ago, 20-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| (...) I've asked for help with the floating point bugs in IC before, and nobody seems to care. Unfortunately, I've come to not use IC floating point variables at all, since I can't trust them. It's all very frustrating since none of the IC versions (...) (26 years ago, 21-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| if you are not trying to divide numbers of great precision(many significant figures), then you can try multiplying by some order of 10, performing your division, then dividing by that same order of 10. i have used this before, but not for the same (...) (26 years ago, 22-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| (...) Yes, you are right. But I think this should be address by the software programmer. joema (26 years ago, 23-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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