2nd February 2006, 1:16 PM
Indeed. Quick test. If you subtract the number 1.10 from the number 1.9, is the result positive, negative, or 0?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)