Why can't I multiply a float?

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Published on 2010-06-13T05:00:25Z Indexed on 2010/06/13 5:02 UTC
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I was quite surprised why I tried to multiply a float in C (with GCC 3.2) and that it did not do as I expected.. As a sample:

int main() {
  float nb = 3.11f;
  nb *= 10;
  printf("%f\n", nb);
}

Displays: 31.099998

I am curious regarding the way floats are implemented and why it produces this unexpected behavior?

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