https://archive.org/details/studyofprogrammi0000stan/page/122/mode/2up?q=astonishment https://archive.org/details/studyofprogrammi0000stan/page/12... "Consider

https://archive.org/details/studyofprogrammi0000stan/page/122/mode/2up?q=astonishment https://archive.org/details/studyofprogrammi0000stan/page/12... "Consider the expression 1/3 + 25. In PL/I this expression has the value 5.33333333333. Why? One-third is computed to 15 digits of precision, 14 to the right of the decimal point. Then 25 is coerced to the same precision, losing the most significant digit 2! This does raise an error in PL/I, but the default is to ignore it."