When performing calculations with floating point variables, why are the results not the same as a ordinary calculater.
When performing calculations with floating point variables, why are the results not the same as a ordinary calculater.
floats, doubles and calculators all use different levels of precision.
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
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all the data types in c have different precision as told by salem.
And to be amazed by this thing,store any int like 3 in float when you print the float it will contain 2.9999....
Most calculators, AFAIK, use their own data type for handling floating point arithmetic. This is usually done quite easily in C++ using operator overloading and such to create a class that will handle larger, more accurate floating point operations at a small cost of speed. In C, the task is a bit more of a challenge to accomplish, but it is definitely possible.
