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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/14/2013 10:42 AM, Vincent
Snijders wrote:<br>
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<div>For any digit x, it still can be represented exactly in
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Nope, <br>
As the bit count of the mantissa is limited to - say - n , with x
> 2**(n-1) you will not have an exact representation of x.5. <br>
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-Michael<br>
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