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Re: rounding problems
- From: "Douglas McNaught" <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
- To: Justin <justin(at)emproshunts(dot)com>
- Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
- Subject: Re: rounding problems
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 12:12:07 -0400
- Message-id: <5ded07e00805130912q23835e25x83c4780d9f431e7(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>
2008/5/13 Justin <justin(at)emproshunts(dot)com>: > Your saying in Excel, Multiplication is not Commutativity??? that sends > shudders down my back The word you want in this case is "associative". Since floating point math is not exact, sometimes the associativity (and other) properties of some operations are not preserved. This is true for floating point in general, not just Excel. -Doug
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