Rounding
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 6:48 PM, R. Michael Weylandt
<michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:
To be curt, "it's complicated," but it basically comes down to the fact that 1/3 is not expressible by a finite sequence of powers of 2 so it can't be perfectly represented in binary.
But of course, that in turn leads to gems like this, sum(2^(-2*seq(1,30))) == (1/3) M