[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Google is wrong!

Posted: 3/4/2011 1:08:16 AM EDT

Do a search on 399999999999999-399999999999998 and see the immense fail of the calculator.

Posted: 3/4/2011 1:12:58 AM EDT

[#1]

binary representation failure.

Posted: 3/4/2011 1:13:37 AM EDT

[#2]

That's wierd.

399999999999999-399999999999997 returns the right answer: 2.

Posted: 3/4/2011 2:13:00 AM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
Do a search on 399999999999999-399999999999998 and see the immense fail of the calculator.

Somebody is bored

Posted: 3/4/2011 4:55:07 AM EDT

[#4]

Ever use Google Maps to get from Los Angles to Honolulu?

Instruction #14: "Kayak across the Pacific Ocean"

Posted: 3/4/2011 4:59:30 AM EDT

[#5]

Does the same thing with numbers 3 through 9 it looks like. Wonder why not 1 and 2 though?

Posted: 3/4/2011 5:02:42 AM EDT

[#6]

I never worked past 999-998 before I got to bored to continue. Props on the will to continue.

Posted: 3/4/2011 5:10:55 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Do a search on 399999999999999-399999999999998 and see the immense fail of the calculator.

No it isn't. Just a matter of so many bits to represent the mantissa. Sometimes it happens in computing.

Posted: 3/4/2011 6:00:02 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Ever use Google Maps to get from Los Angles to Honolulu?

Instruction #14: "Kayak across the Pacific Ocean"

China to Japan

41. Jet ski across the Pacific Ocean

Posted: 3/4/2011 6:16:02 AM EDT

[#9]

how are youre grades ?