Re: Singles to Doubles

dpb wrote:
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What then looks like "garbage" in external representation is, in fact what the continuing fraction w/ all numerators zero is.

More precisely, all past those given in single precision are zero...

I also intended to add that again, the difference in what was originally posted is that the string representation brings the i/o routines back into play and forces a conversion from the external ASCII decimal representation (obtained by a behind the scenes translation of the Single precision internal representation to that form, of course) to internal representation and since it is cast to a Double, the full precision is provided, just as if the same decimal value had been written in a source file and assigned to a Double or read into a Double by in Input # statement.

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