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[Addictgamer]

2 / 3 = 0.66666666666666666666666666666667

That is the way you translate 2/3 into a decimal, but the thing is, the 6 goes on forever...

1 / 3 = 0.33333333333333333333333333333333

That is the way you translate 1/3 into a decimal, but here there isn't that glitch as above.

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[TheDoctor]

Some calculators round the last number of decimals that infinitely perpetuate. I'm sorry, but you fail.

[Addictgamer]

hehehe.

I DIDN'T know that.

But it didn't round 0.33333333333333333333333333333333 to have an 0 at the end

*MATH FAIL!*

[TheDoctor]

That's because they don't round down.

[Cirevam]

In base-3 0.33333333333333333333333333333333 is equivalent to 0.1, exact value. In a similar manner, a whole host of numbers that can be represented exactly in base-10 can't be represented exactly in base-2, which is why some computers can make weird floating-point numbers. Some languages handle it better than others as well.

So it's not the calculator's fault, it's the core programming structure.

[TheDoctor]

Yeah...i never got/understood/learned/bothered to learn the whole "base #" concept. Still, that's what calculators do.

[Addictgamer]

Uh huh....

Its still a glitch in that it would do that.

And the average american would see it as; they were ripped off and want their money refunded.

Anyway, the average human would see it as a glitch because they don't know about the core programming.