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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - Precision issue in calc"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138920#c11">Comment # 11</a>
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title="NEW - Precision issue in calc"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138920">bug 138920</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:erack@redhat.com" title="Eike Rathke <erack@redhat.com>"> <span class="fn">Eike Rathke</span></a>
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<pre>You seem to not understand. Once the value is in the IEEE 754 binary format
there are no "8 decimal places" to use.
It's about sufficient precision and rounding when converting from binary
floating-point to the decimal display string.
See also <a href="https://erack.de/bookmarks/D.html#010203">https://erack.de/bookmarks/D.html#010203</a>
Or if you want to dive deep into then
<a href="https://erack.de/bookmarks/D.html#Computer_Arithmetic_and_IEEE_754">https://erack.de/bookmarks/D.html#Computer_Arithmetic_and_IEEE_754</a></pre>
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