.. . . slight "brain typo" in my previous reponse when I said, "VB6 actually
stores them as standard IEEE 64-bit
(8-byte) floating-point numbers (Singles)". I of course meant Doubles! The
rest of the explanation still holds good though.
Re: are dbls by partner of a 1nt opener alertable in the acbl? ...takeout in a given auction, it is careless to assume an unalerted ... Yet responder says the double is "not negative" implying ... This type of bad explanation is created by the bridge community's ... failure to generalize about doubles.... (rec.games.bridge)
Re: is order urgent doubt ... Because double double (using a pair of doubles to represent a single ...floating-point number) in the general case doesn't adhere to the ... to restrict the exponents to make the fraction bits contiguous rather ... (comp.lang.c)
Re: are dbls by partner of a 1nt opener alertable in the acbl? ...takeout in a given auction, it is careless to assume an unalerted ... double is intended as for penalty.... This type of bad explanation is created by the bridge community's ... failure to generalize about doubles.... (rec.games.bridge)
Re: Working with floating point values ... That's what I've always done in the past, but decimals are *much* slower to ...complex calculations thousands of times each, ... decimals and doubles is quite noticeable. ... >> nature of floating-point calculations to produce values like ... (microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp)
Re: is order urgent doubt ... Because double double (using a pair of doubles to represent a single ...floating-point number) in the general case doesn't adhere to the ... (comp.lang.c)
