Floating Point Math
Floating Point Math
Your language isn't broken, it's doing floating point math. Computers can only natively store integers, so they need some way of representing decimal numbers. This representation comes with some degree of inaccuracy. That's why, more often than not, .1 + .2 != .3.
Why does this happen?
It's actually pretty simple. When you have a base 10 system (like ours), it can only express fractions that use a prime factor of the base. The prime factors of 10 are 2 and 5. So 1/2, 1/4, 1/5, 1/8, and 1/10 can all be expressed cleanly because the denominators all use prime factors of 10. In contrast, 1/3, 1/6, and 1/7 are all repeating decimals because their denominators use a prime factor of 3 or 7. In binary (or base 2), the only prime factor is 2. So you can only express fractions cleanly which only contain 2 as a prime factor. In binary, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 would all be expressed cleanly as decimals. While, 1/5 or 1/10 would be repeating decimals. So 0.1 and 0.2 (1/10 and 1/5) while clean decimals in a base 10 system, are repeating decimals in the base 2 system the computer is operating in. When you do math on these repeating decimals, you end up with leftovers which carry over when you convert the computer's base 2 (binary) number into a more human readable base 10 number.
Below are some examples of sending .1 + .2 to standard output in a variety of languages.
read more: | wikipedia | IEEE 754 | Stack Overflow | What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
| Language | Code | Result |
|---|---|---|
| ABAP |
And
|
0.30000000000000004 And 0.3 |
| Ada |
|
3.00000E-01 |
| APL |
|
0.30000000000000004 |
| AutoHotkey |
|
0.300000 |
| awk |
|
0.3 |
| bc |
|
0.3 |
| C |
|
0.30000000000000004 |
| Clojure |
|
0.30000000000000004 |
|
Clojure supports arbitrary precision and ratios. |
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| ColdFusion |
|
0.3 |
| Common Lisp |
And
And
And
|
0.3 And 3/10 And 0.30000000000000004d0 And 0.20000005 |
|
CL’s spec doesn’t actually even require radix 2 floats (let alone specifically 32-bit singles and 64-bit doubles), but the high-performance implementations all seem to use IEEE floats with the usual sizes. This was tested on SBCL and ECL in particular. |
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| C++ |
|
0.30000000000000004 |
| Crystal |
And
|
0.30000000000000004 And 0.3 |
| C# |
And
|
0.30000000000000004 And 0.3 |
|
C# has support for 128-bit decimal numbers, with 28-29 significant digits of precision. Their range, however, is smaller than that of both the single and double precision floating point types. Decimal literals are denoted with the |
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| D |
|
0.29999999999999999 |
| Dart |
|
0.30000000000000004 |
| dc |
|
.3 |
| Delphi XE5 |
|
3.00000000000000E-0001 |
| Elixir |
|
0.30000000000000004 |
| Elm |
|
0.30000000000000004 |
| elvish |
|
0.30000000000000004 |
|
elvish uses Go’s |
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| Emacs Lisp |
|
0.30000000000000004 |
| Erlang |
|
0.30000000000000004 |
| FORTRAN |
|
0.300000012 |
| Gforth |
|
0.3 |
| GHC (Haskell) |
And
|
And
|
|
Haskell supports rational numbers. To get the math right, |
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| Go |
|
0.3 |
| Groovy |
|
0.3 |
|
Literal decimal values in Groovy are instances of java.math.BigDecimal |
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| Hugs (Haskell) |
|
0.3 |
| Io |
|
0.3 |
| Java |
And
|
0.30000000000000004 And 0.3 |
|
Java has built-in support for arbitrary precision numbers using the BigDecimal class. |
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| JavaScript |
|
0.30000000000000004 |
|
The decimal.js library provides an arbitrary-precision Decimal type for JavaScript. |
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| Julia |
|
0.30000000000000004 |
|
Julia has built-in rational numbers support and also a built-in arbitrary-precision BigFloat data type. To get the math right, |
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| K (Kona) |
|
0.3 |
| Lua |
And
|
0.3 And 0.30000000000000004 |
| Mathematica |
|
0.3 |
|
Mathematica has a fairly thorough internal mechanism for dealing with numerical precision and supports arbitrary precision. |
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| Matlab |
And
|
0.3 And 0.30000000000000004 |
| MySQL |
|
0.3 |
| Nim |
|
0.3 |
| Objective-C |
|
0.30000000000000004 |
| OCaml |
|
float = 0.300000000000000044 |
| Perl 5 |
And
|
0.3 And 0.30000000000000004 |
| Perl 6 |
And
And
And
|
0.3 And 0.3 And 0.3 And 0.30000000000000004 |
|
Perl 6, unlike Perl 5, uses rationals by default, so .1 is stored something like { numerator => 1, denominator => 10 }. To actually trigger the behavior, you must force the numbers to be of type Num (double in C terms) and use the base function instead of the sprintf or fmt functions (since those functions have a bug that limits the precision of the output). |
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| PHP |
|
0.3 float(0.30000000000000004441) |
|
PHP |
||
| PicoLisp |
And
|
(/ 3 10) |
|
You must load file “frac.min.l”. |
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| Postgres |
|
0.3 |
| Powershell |
|
0.3 |
| Prolog (SWI-Prolog) |
|
X = 0.30000000000000004. |
| Pyret |
And
|
0.3 And ~0.30000000000000004 |
|
Pyret has built-in support for both rational numbers and floating points. Numbers written normally are assumed to be exact. In contrast, RoughNums are represented by floating points, and are written with a |
||
| Python 2 |
And
And
And
|
0.3 And 0.30000000000000004 And 0.3 And 0.3 |
|
Python 2’s “print” statement converts 0.30000000000000004 to a string and shortens it to “0.3”. To achieve the desired floating point result, use print(repr(.1 + .2)). This was fixed in Python 3 (see below). |
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| Python 3 |
And
And
And
|
0.30000000000000004 And 0.30000000000000004 And 0.3 And 0.3 |
|
Python (both 2 and 3) supports decimal arithmetic with the decimal module, and true rational numbers with the fractions module. |
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| R |
And
|
0.3 And 0.30000000000000004 |
| Racket (PLT Scheme) |
And
|
0.30000000000000004 And 3/10 |
| Ruby |
And
|
0.30000000000000004 And 3/10 |
|
Ruby supports rational numbers in syntax with version 2.1 and newer directly. For older versions use Rational. |
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| Rust |
|
0.30000000000000004 And 1/10 + 2/10 = 3/10 |
|
Rust has rational number support from the num crate. |
||
| SageMath |
And
And
And
|
0.3 And 0.30000000000000004 And [“0.300000000000000 +/- 1.64e-16”] And 3/10 |
|
SageMath supports various fields for arithmetic: Arbitrary Precision Real Numbers, RealDoubleField, Ball Arithmetic, Rational Numbers, etc. |
||
| scala |
And
And
|
0.30000000000000004 And 0.3 And 0.3 |
| Smalltalk |
|
0.30000000000000004 |
| Swift |
And
|
0.3 And 0.30000000000000004 |
| TCL |
|
0.30000000000000004 |
| Turbo Pascal 7.0 |
|
3.0000000000E-01 |
| Vala |
|
0.30000000000000004 |
| Visual Basic 6 |
|
0.0000000000000001 |
|
Appending the identifier type character |
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| WebAssembly (WAST) |
And
|
0.30000001192092896 And 0.30000000000000004 |
|
https://webassembly.studio/?f=r739k6d6q4t |
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| zsh |
|
0.30000000000000004 |
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