The test uses the number 255.0. To represent this number exactly, 7 bits of mantissa is sufficient. Are we really concerned about systems with less precision than that?
/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)
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2002-09-23 17:42: Subject: catch { catch { break foo; }; };
Probably because they don't trust the precision of the decimals.
/ Henrik Grubbström (Lysator)