Re: [Json] WGLC comment about numeric values

[Tim Bray <[e-mail]>]

Those problems and surprises are totally nonspecific to JSON.  Don’t think
it adds value.


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Jorge Chamorro <[e-mail]>wrote:

> On 11/10/2013, at 23:39, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> >
> > (I don't want to restart the 1.1 discussion :-)
>
> You don't want :-), but that's interesting and a *very* common source of
> problems and surprises. Perhaps what you want to say can be said in a short
> line. Why don't you try? E.g:
>
> "Fractions in base 10 often can't be represented exactly in a binary
> format, e.g. 0.1" "IEEE-754 is a binary format"
>
> Or a link to somewhere like <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point#Accuracy_problems> ?
>
> ?
>
> --
> ( Jorge )();