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[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

To be fair, 0.2 + 0.1 = 0.30000000000000004

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Welcome to the secret robot Internet

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

That's what happens when you have Intel inside ;o)

(Yes, yes, I know, it's the whole binary based floating point thing, not just Intel, although my Atari 800 BASIC interpreter implemented floating point in BCD, so it didn't have that issue.)