Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by yellowstuff 3877 days ago
Yes, I agree this page is misleading. It makes it look like C# is using rational numbers instead of floating point. In fact the "G" format defaults to 15 digits of precision for doubles, which is few enough to avoid ugly strings in many simple situations, but not all:

> Console.WriteLine((.1 + .2)-.3); > Result: 5.55111512312578E-17