exact representation of floating points in c

Question

void main()
{
    float a = 0.7;

    if (a < 0.7)
        printf(\"c\");
    else
        printf(\"c++\");
} 

In the above question for 0.7, \"

Answer 1

A good reference for this is What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic. You can use higher precision types (e.g. double) or a Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) library to achieve better floating point precision if you need it.