[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 128312] Calculation involing some decimals return incorrect floats with 12 d.p.

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128312

--- Comment #10 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #9)
> "what place this works should have been".

A typo: should read "what place this world should have been".

(In reply to b. from comment #7)
> ... one shouldn't try to convince normal people with normal
> mathematical education that they are not errors. This will always and again
> cause endless discussions. 

This, by the way, only tells that "normal" mathematical education is not
adequate. See e.g. this lab [1] from Department of Mathematics of Boise State
University (just a random result found on Internet search for "finite precision
mathematics").

[1]
https://math.boisestate.edu/~calhoun/teaching/matlab-tutorials/lab_19/html/lab_19.html

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