30 Dec
2007
30 Dec
'07
6:59 p.m.
Paul A Bristow wrote:
The chances of this a very small 1 in 3 values of a very narrow range-
I disagree with this. I don't think the chances are very small.
only MS is known to have this problem
I don't think it's isolated to microsoft. I think it's an inherent limitation of trying to represent some binary fractions exactly as decimal fractions.
as the link below shows.
I don't think the link shows that.
Amazingly (to me at least) this is a 'feature' and may not be fixed - despite it looking very much like a simple out-by-1 error.
I think microsoft's response in this case is exactly correct. Robert Ramey