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Re: Unexpected behavior of Floor and IntegerPart

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg97957] Re: Unexpected behavior of Floor and IntegerPart
• From: Szabolcs <szhorvat at gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:24:28 -0500 (EST)
• References: <gqacr4$jbm$1@smc.vnet.net> <gqd1nb$nq4$1@smc.vnet.net>

On Mar 25, 12:40 pm, wayne <wayneb... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 24, 6:32 pm, Curtis Osterhoudt <c... at lanl.gov> wrote:> Dear List,
>
> >    I'm sure this is a result of non-infinite-precision arithmetic, =
bu=
>
> t it would be nice to have a more consistent behavior:
>

It is consistent, consistent between different functions, that is:

Try these:

Rationalize[0.29*100, 0]

Rationalize[0.29*100, 0] < 29