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David Silverman
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 11/11/98 5:45pm
I'm writing a function that takes the first 2 numbers to the right of the
decimal place and divides it by 60. For example, f[247.3]=.5, which is
30 divided by 60. I'm doing this by:
IntegerPart[100 FractionalPart[x]]/60
which I expected to work, but it gives me 29/60, probably because it is
using 29.99999999 instead of 30. I have noticed many times when I output
numbers to a file that are exact (e.g. 247.3) it will usually store it with
a bunch of 9's (e.g. 247.299999999). Is there a way to stop this? It is becoming
troublesome.
Thanks,
David
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