Which bit? There are 32 to play with here. 
(The rest of the discussion seems to support me, 
not contradict me, as it outlines a fudge that
admittedly sometimes is going to give the wrong answer.) 
Nick 
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Austin Nichols
 
> Amani--
> 
> All of what Nick says is true, but the claim that "there is no way you
> can avoid this kind of problem by writing your own program, unless you
> also construct a decimal-based computer" is overreaching a bit. 
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