Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >microsoft.public.xml Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Re: Mathematical accuracy in xpath [Thread Next] Re: Mathematical accuracy in xpathTo: NULL Date: 6/16/2009 3:54:00 PM Martin Honnen wrote: > kinobo wrote: >> If I execute the following xslt I get the result given below. >> I'm no mathematician but 100 times 2500.01 does not equal 250001.00000000003 > > Well XPath 1.0 uses double floating point numbers like JavaScript or > Java do too and with these there is limited precision, in particular > when there is no finite binary representation of a number. For more details, he (she?) might also look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point#Accuracy_problems Thomas | ||||||
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