It's a bug?

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Emiliano Rosso
Emiliano Rosso on 29 Nov 2018
Edited: madhan ravi on 29 Nov 2018
I discovered a potential bug and I want to report it:
Matlab R2018a windows 10
alfa=-0.0052+(61-1)*0.0001;
reasoning this is 0.0060-0.0052=0.0008=8e-04
so:
alfa2=8e-04;
isequal(alfa,alfa2)
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if you open alfa variable you can see:
8.000000000000004e-04
in fact if you round alfa:
alfa3=round(alfa,10);
isequal(alfa2,alfa3)
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1
That's all Thanks
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Bruno Luong
Bruno Luong on 29 Nov 2018
Welcome to the club, you are one more person who confuses about finite precision floating point calculation.

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madhan ravi
madhan ravi on 29 Nov 2018
Edited: madhan ravi on 29 Nov 2018
It‘s called floating point comparison just search with the tag floating-point in this forum you will find lot of reasons
abs(alfa-alfa2)<1e-04

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