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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But why

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Floating point arithmetic

Basically, every floating point number represents a range of numbers. Which can lead to small errors like this. It has also to do with trying to represent a decimal number in binary, which works fine for integers but not for rational numbers.