Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 14:39:05 -0500
From: Alex Bogomolny
Bernd, hello:
You are right about one possible remedy: evaluating the conversion error from decimal to binary and chopping it off. There might be a simpler solution:
Convert you numbers to integers or long integers, as the case may be. In integer arithmetic Netscape behaves much better. For example, 118/50 = 2.36. What it takes is storing numbers as pairs - (power of ten, integer) so that 11.8 = (-1, 118).
The expression "integer arithmetic" is not probably accurate. But, if it works, who cares. I am not familiar with the system to give a satisfactory explanation. There could be several reasons.
Best regards,
Alexander Bogomolny
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