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Message-ID: <42F89698.3090809@bristol.ac.uk>
Date: 2005-08-09T11:42:16Z
From: Simon Woodhead
Subject: floor() rounding problem?

Dear all,

Could someone please explain the following perculiarity?

 > 2 == 0.2/0.1
[1] TRUE
 > 3 == 0.3/0.1
[1] FALSE

Similarly,

floor(0.2/0.1) = 2
floor(0.3/0.1) = 2

Thank you,
Simon