Re: Strange Result -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Strange Result
From: Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 09:48:44 -0600
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Don't feel bad ...
$ node
Welcome to Node.js v14.2.0.
Type ".help" for more information.

.01 * .01

0.0001

.012 * .011

0.00013199999999999998

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 9:28 AM Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

John,
The ** (exponentiation) operator outputs data type 8F (8 byte aka 64-bit
aka "double precision" floating point), so unfortunately it will lose
precision just as floating point numbers do.

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Re: Strange Result , Jack Woehr
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