Java float, double, StrictMath correction?

[Joseph D. Darcy]

On 3/15/2022 6:11 PM, A Z wrote:
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> Raffaello has said:
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> 'Exact representation of 0.1 using base 2 is mathematically impossible,
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> no matter the language (it is a periodic number in base 2).'
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> Consideration of the article:
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> https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf
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> Which is admittedly older, but still accurate, indicates otherwise.

As the co-author of the article in question, I am familiar with its contents and the article does not question 1/10 being a repeating fraction in binary.

For comments on both the technical floating-point matters raised and style of discourse, I refer interested readers to a previous email on core-libs-dev:

     http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2018-March/051952.html

-Joe