Re: FPU, i386

From: Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de)
Date: Thu Apr 25 2002 - 08:22:54 EST

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rpm <rajendra.mishra@timesys.com> writes:

|> I understand that in case of inrrational number it will not give a exact
|> value ......but division like 1/.2 is not irrational ! and it should always
|> come to 5 !

It is not about irrational number (of course, the result of dividing two
rational number is always a rational number), but about finite precision.
You simply cannot represent 0.2 finitely in base 2.

Andreas.

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