Or perhaps it makes us mistrust more than we should? How often are we working on problems where the difference between 0.1 and 0.100000000000000006 is of any practical importance?
When I format a float out to 5 decimal places, I'm sort of making a statement that anything beyond that doesn't matter to me.
When I format a float out to 5 decimal places, I'm sort of making a statement that anything beyond that doesn't matter to me.