A PC guy brought this to my attention to prove his point that Macs suck!
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/apple-calculator
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On the bright side, we finally found something PCs are better than Macs at.
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I argued this once before, it really is all about the FPU (Floating Point Unit) on the computer itself more then likely. I doubt it has anything to do with Windows or Mac OS, but the actual hardware.
got code?
One of the article's comments said that the same was true of the Windoze calculator, and that it wasn't fixed until XP. I just tried it here with Mac OS X's built-in Calculator app (using his example, 9533.24 - .1 = the incorrect answer, 9533.139999999999) and it did come up with the correct answer (9533.14).
So it must have been fixed in 10.3. (Or maybe in a Panther update? I'm running 10.3.5 now.) :)
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