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Why 0.1 Does Not Exist In Floating-Point
There are an infinite number of real values in the range [-FLT_MAX, +FLT_MAX], but only 2^n values can be represented with n bits. That means there are an infinite number of values in that range that cannot be represented with any number of bits.
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