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Fw: BUG REPORT: unexpected floating point behavior
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- Subject: Fw: BUG REPORT: unexpected floating point behavior
- From: "Stan Malyshev" <stas at xpconsulting dot com>
- Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 03:42:27 -0700
- Organization: XP Consulting, Inc.
----- Original Message -----
From: Stan Malyshev
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Tennyson Lee
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 3:40 AM
Subject: BUG REPORT: unexpected floating point behavior
Consider the following unexpected output of a simple loop that increments a
floating value by 0.1 at every iteration:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
float x;
for (x = 0; x < 4; x += 0.1f) {
printf("x=%f\n", x);
}
return 0;
}
------------------
x=0.000000
x=0.100000
x=0.200000
x=0.300000
x=0.400000
x=0.500000
x=0.600000
x=0.700000
x=0.800000
x=0.900000
x=1.000000
x=1.100000
x=1.200000
x=1.300000
x=1.400000
x=1.500000
x=1.600000
x=1.700000
x=1.800000
x=1.900000
x=2.000000
x=2.100000
x=2.200000
x=2.300000
x=2.400000
x=2.500000
x=2.600000
x=2.700000
x=2.799999
x=2.899999
x=2.999999
x=3.099999
x=3.199999
x=3.299999
x=3.399999
x=3.499999
x=3.599999
x=3.699999
x=3.799999
x=3.899998
x=3.999998
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