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Default Subtracting two 2-decimal place numbers gives result 13-decimal places?

first cell, the value: 61179.17
second cell, the value: 67083.97
third cell, formula subtracting first cell value from the second.
instead of 95.20, the result is actually 95.19999999999710
Whats up?

 
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