basic math

Hi,

When I do some basic math in NCL I get unexpected results. I was
wondering if I have made some mistake somewhere or if there is a
solution to prevent this behavior.

The problem is illustrated by this snippet of code:
print(4-4.8)
(0) -0.8000002

This phenomenon is not limited to subtraction:
print(1.2*5.3)
(0) 6.360001

But it is sensitive to the value of the floats:
print(1.2*5.1)
(0) 6.12

This happens while using ncl version 4.2.0.a035 on a PPC mac, version 4.3.1
on an intel linux machine, and while using version 5.0.1 on an intel mac.

Thank you,

Ruben
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Received on Thu Apr 10 2008 - 11:17:13 MDT