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 15.4.1 Floating-Point Arithmetic Is Not Exact
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 Binary floating-point representations and arithmetic are inexact.
 Simple values like 0.1 cannot be precisely represented using binary
 floating-point numbers, and the limited precision of floating-point
 numbers means that slight changes in the order of operations or the
 precision of intermediate storage can change the result.  To make
 matters worse, with arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic, you
 can set the precision before starting a computation, but then you cannot
 be sure of the number of significant decimal places in the final result.

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· Inexact representation      Numbers are not exactly represented.
· Comparing FP Values         How to compare floating point values.
· Errors accumulate           Errors get bigger as they go.
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