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Re: [Help-smalltalk] 1e-4 printing bug
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Derek Zhou |
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Re: [Help-smalltalk] 1e-4 printing bug |
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Thu, 18 Apr 2019 22:15:14 +0800 |
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On April 18, 2019 9:40:41 PM GMT+08:00, Thomas Worthington <address@hidden>
wrote:
>More strangeness:
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>(10 raisedTo: -4) asExactFraction
>1/10000
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correct; 10 raisedTo: -4 is a fraction, not a float. the asExactFraction is an
noop. no rounding was involved.
>(10 raisedTo: -4) asFloat
>0.0001
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correct. the float value is actually not 0.0001, but something very close to
it. the printing method did some further rounding and gave you the illusion
that no precision was lost.
>1e-4
>0.00001
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bug. which I proposed a fix previously.