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Old 08-02-2014
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Old 08-03-2014
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Originally Posted by Don Cragun
It is interesting that you're getting the line:
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adj =   1.12000000476837158000

while I'm getting:
Code:
adj =	1.12000000476837158203

I wonder if the Apple compiler is optimizing basic floating point operations into some SIMD/3dnow/etc instruction instead of using the old-fashioned x86 FPU. (There's some reason to avoid the FPU, these days it frees up some registers.) These instruction sets often sacrifice accuracy for speed.
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