Why does this subtraction not equal zero?

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This is because decimal numbers that “look” round in base 10, are not exactly representable in base 2 (which is what computers use to represent floating point numbers). Please see the article What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic for a detailed explanation of this problem and workarounds.

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