Thursday, January 26, 2006

Google's (in) famous math

Wow, this is interesting














Go to google and do 1-0.9-0.1

Wonder whats causing it, any comments :)?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks similar to miserable failure and george w bush :)

one more google bug

Good one harshit bhai

Anonymous said...

Looks similar to miserable failure and george w bush :)

one more google bug

Good one harshit bhai

Animesh said...

It is not a google bug. It is the problem with representations. Many floating point numbers cannot be represented accurately in a binary based IEEE 754 type system. This is as a result of that problem.

-A

Harshit Shah said...

well, tht george w bush thing is def not a google bug, its a google bomb

Thanks Animesh, for letting me knw abt the ieee 754 and stuff

Aniket said...

Is zero a floating point number ? Cant google represent a zero?