You are absolutely correct; there are multiple varieties of floating points available out there. I should have specified IEEE-754 definitions since those are the ubiquitous (but not sole) representations of floating points in modern computing. Thanks for the clarification!
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0.1exactly in binary, but not in IEEE Floating Point. Check outunumby John Gustafson.You are absolutely correct; there are multiple varieties of floating points available out there. I should have specified IEEE-754 definitions since those are the ubiquitous (but not sole) representations of floating points in modern computing. Thanks for the clarification!