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		colejohnson66 on Nov 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Floating point visually explained (2017) But they are repeating. So, by definition, they are not exactly representable in a (binary) floating point system. Again, that’s why 0.1 + 0.2 is not 0.3 in binary floating point.

jacobolus on Nov 29, 2021 [–]

These are not "repeating". This is showing the exact binary representation of the nearest double precision value in each case.

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