[Hugs] #68: Subtraction Error

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Fri May 11 09:58:43 EDT 2007


#68: Subtraction Error
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 Reporter:  neumarcx               |       Owner:  nobody
     Type:  defect                 |      Status:  new   
 Priority:  major                  |   Milestone:        
Component:  hugs                   |     Version:  200609
 Keywords:  arithmetic operations  |  
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Why is the difference between minuend and subtrahend wrong, if you use any
 5 digit exponent for floating point numbers ?

 e.g.

 Version: Sep 2006
 Haskell 98 mode: Restart with command line option -98 to enable extensions

 Type :? for help
 Hugs> 12345 - 12345.1
 -0.100000000000364

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