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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to All   
   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   
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