Q: Why does floating-point binary struggle to store clean decimals like 0.1?
A: Binary counts in negative powers of 2 (halves, quarters, eighths). Fractions like 0.1 turn into infinitely recurring binary fractions, forcing floating-point systems to round off and introduce tiny precision errors.
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