Floating Point Arithmatic..

Did you ever face something like this : X, and Y are two floating point numbers. You print their values and they are exactly same. and then you write a simple logic like this..

if(x!=y) {

printf("x and y are not equal) ;

}

and it prints that x and y are not equal ;-) Apparantly it happens often. and if you wondered why
the following links might help you.

Its all got to do with floating point numbers..

http://www.cygnus-software.com/papers/comparingfloats/comparingfloats.htm

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/588004/is-javascripts-math-broken

http://dlc.sun.com/pdf/800-7895/800-7895.pdf