On: High resolution timers and high uptime headaches

[recursive]

Yes, and when I say 1/3, I mean 0.3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333... and so on. Unfortunately, I can't tell you exactly, since we're using decimal.

[jschwartzi → recursive]

As a workaround you simply approximate to a significant figure past any other values in your calculation. So in practice it doesn't really matter that there's no exact base-10 representation as a decimal because there's always an approximation that introduces no error.

[recursive → jschwartzi]

So what's 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3? If your answer is anything other than 1, you've introduced an error.