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A zillion years back in time I remember seeing something like that in a paleolithic Bull machine, I think it was a program written in Basic and the programmer's “reason” was something in the line of “making sure precision is right”.
May be the same guy got a job writting pl/sql code.
By the way, I have good reasons to believe that at that time the guy might be right, it is a fact that in the same machine you had to do a=round(2*2) instead of a=2*2 if you wanted to get a=4 ... rather than getting a=3.99999 with sixteen 9's after the decimal point.
You know what? kinda I miss that time
Last edited by PAVB; 10-08-2008 at 11:39 AM.
Pablo (Paul) Berzukov
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