It is quite usual that simple decimal fractions like 0.1 or 0.7 cannot be converted into their internal binary counterparts without a little loss of precision.

See also type juggling.

The boat was broken by the floating ice.

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For values of other types, the conversion is the same as if the value would have been converted to integer and then to float.

In contrast, Cambodia has no fixed wages.

They could not simultaneously debase the currency and back it with gold at a fixed rate.

That requires contracts that do not come with a fixed expiry date.

They are major holders of fixed interest securities, and their investment income has fallen sharply.

In a floating exchange rate system, a currency should weaken in the face of chronic weakness in the economy.

Companies with a high percentage of floating rate debt stand to lose the most, Goldman said.

People with fixed rate mortgages are also vulnerable to rate increases, though less directly.

However, late last year, Everbright Bank and some others began offering fixed rate mortgages.

Low interest rates meant that deficits could be financed by floating bonds.

When interest rates go up, these payments will (when the rate is variable) also go up, possibly becoming unsustainable.

This is about as good as maps get, and to reach it you've got to ski literally over the frozen crust, the floating skin of ice on the Artic Ocean.

Hiroshi Ishii and his group at the MIT Media Lab took a ping pong table and placed a projector above it, and on the ping pong table they projected an image of water with fish swimming in it.

Fourth, before the 2008 crisis, banks were market makers in fixed income instruments.

When there is no yield in fixed income, even the most conservative pension funds pile into risk assets, driving prices higher and higher.

Last month Musk announced plans to make Tesla a private company and to buy out all its shares on the stock exchange at a fixed price of 420.

The most powerful configuration, the SC5832, is a single cabinet supercomputer consisting of 972 such node chips for a total of 5832 MIPS64 processor cores and 8.2 teraFLOPS of peak performance.

If the state bowed before the challenge it faced, France would be no more than a poor, broken toy floating on an ocean of uncertainty, he warned.

But as more goods are produced while the wage per worker is fixed, profits increase by exactly the same amount as the value of output does.

It supports only a small number of atomic data structures such as boolean values, numbers (double precision floating point by default), and strings.

Sarkozy has also spoken of forcing France's eager healthcare consumers to pay a flat fee covering part of the costs of treatment.

For instance, at the same time as a mathematical instruction is fed into the floating point unit, the load store unit can fetch the next instruction.

the smallest MicroVAX 2000 had a 40MB RD32 hard disk and a maximum of 6MB of RAM, and its CPU had to emulate some of the VAX floating point instructions in software.

Imagine, for example, that Germany borrows at a 1 fixed real interest rate with a ten year maturity and invests the proceeds in repairing domestic transport infrastructure.

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Mobile phone use is already spreading rapidly in developing countries, making old style fixed infrastructure unnecessary data services can use the same system.

There is an analogy to the problems countries faced when they tried to re establish the gold standard after World War I. Until the war, money was backed by gold and could be redeemed at a fixed rate.

Charles Mok pointed out that the government would have difficulty exercising the power given by these two ordinances because both mobile network services and fixed line network services operate in open markets in Hong Kong.

But even as short term interest rates began to rise, the day of reckoning was postponed, as new borrowers could obtain fixed rate mortgages at interest rates that were not increasing. Remarkably, as short term interest rates rose, medium and long term interest rates did not, something that was referred to as a conundrum.

But even as short term interest rates began to rise, the day of reckoning was postponed, as new borrowers could obtain fixed rate mortgages at interest rates that were not increasing.

According to the auction listing, the information (for the low price of 350 bitcoins, currently worth almost 100,000) includes four years of email correspondence with Ministry of Defense official Roman Filimonov s assistant and the content of the assistant s iPhone and iPad.

The smartest move would be to agree that each country tax its CO2 emissions in order to reduce climate change, and then devote a fixed amount of the proceeds to global problem solving.

European fixed income markets rallied strongly as a result, only to reverse course days later when Trichet and his colleagues made it clear that the markets had misread him.

If the instructions inside the function are written with the assumption of receiving an integer value, but the calling code passed a floating point value, then the wrong result will be computed by the invoked function.

On February 23, 2004, he pointed out that many homeowners might have saved tens of thousands of dollars had they held adjustable rate mortgages rather than fixed rate mortgages during the past decade.

It's particularly important if you're shooting with an action cam These devices often have a fixed, wide angle lens, which means you have to get closer to your subjects if you want them to fill the picture frame.

He was, he now says, focusing on how fixed rate mortgages are relatively bad deals for borrowers in times of low inflation, which was a mistake.

European fixed income markets rallied strongly as a result, only to reverse course days later when Trichet and his colleagues made it clear that the markets had misread him.

Looking beyond the old G 7 system, we need a twenty first century approach to multilateralism through the dynamism of a flexible network, not new hierarchies of a fixed or static system. ampnbsp

Fixed mortgages, with interest rates at 6 , were replaced with variable rate mortgages, whose interest payments were tied to the lower short term T bill rates.

In the case of China, the most useful precedent is probably that of Japan in the period from the end of the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate regime in August, 1971, to the collapse of its bubble economy in 1990.