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|    Re: extending MySQL on VMS    |
|    19 Aug 25 01:13:06    |
      From: ldo@nz.invalid              On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:04:43 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:              > I agree that the risk of someone not understanding "division"       > ways is much less than the risk of someone not understanding "and" ways.              People still get confused by the subtleties of binary floating-point       arithmetic. e.g.               Python 3.13.5 (main, Jun 25 2025, 18:55:22) [GCC 14.2.0] on linux        Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.        >>> import math        >>> math.cos(math.pi / 2)        6.123233995736766e-17              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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