round-off issue?

I can't figure out why the floor wont come to 1752?
>> 3.501/40*20*10^3+1.5
ans =
1.752000000000000e+003
>> floor(ans)
ans =
1751

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Fangjun Jiang
Fangjun Jiang el 20 de Sept. de 2011

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Rounding error caused by floating point calculation.
>> 3.501/40*20*10
ans =
17.504999999999995

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Jan
Jan el 20 de Sept. de 2011
sprintf('%.13f', 3.501/40*20*10^3+1.5)
>> 1751.9999999999998
sprintf('%.12f', 3.501/40*20*10^3+1.5)
>> 1752.000000000000
Fangjun Jiang
Fangjun Jiang el 20 de Sept. de 2011
Thanks, Jan! That's even better to explain the problem!

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