You need to take it a step further, since e.g. 64-bit floats have a ton of mantissa bits.

Here's an example in python3.

    >>> "{:.2f}".format(1e16 + (1 + 1))
    '10000000000000002.00'
    >>> "{:.2f}".format((1e16 + 1) + 1)
    '10000000000000000.00'

take b and c with opposite signs