Why isn't Float32 == Float64 (Converting from Float32 to Float64)

GunnarFarneback · July 2, 2020, 10:24am

It doesn’t have an exact representation in either Float32 or Float64.

julia> BigFloat(312.09)
312.08999999999997498889570124447345733642578125

julia> BigFloat(312.09f0)
312.089996337890625

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