> Apparently because the precision of the resulting operation was 1 behind
> the decimal point?
>
> Which means in english ??? for us slow kiwis :-)

I think that if you do (3.0/1440.0) the resulting value is rounded to a
precision of 1 digit after the decimal point, while (3.0000/...) is rounded
to 4 digits behind the decimal point...

I hope this is more correct English :-)

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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