[fpc-pascal] Why this evaluates on "if" wrong ?
Marco van de Voort
marcov at stack.nl
Sun Oct 28 20:41:47 CET 2007
> > Regarding the $3000 computer: An extended has 20 digits of precision.
> > Make sure you round your output to 10 digits and you need to a very weird
> > calcation until you can see a rounding difference :)
>
> I was talking about $3000 pascal dollars:
>
> BEGIN
> writeln($3000);
> END.
>
> Output:
> 12288
>
> The Pascal dollar is worth a lot more than you think.
It shows the current weak state of the dollar. Look what 3 and an half euro
is worth nowadays:
writeln(3E5:10:3);
:-)
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