Re: Float Precesion problem?

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From: Raed Sawalha (raed_sawalha_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/10/04 

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:23:00 +0200

yes thats what i meant representing it from 0.99990000000000001 to 0.9999
, thats mean this is not possible ?

"Sigurd Stenersen" <sigurds@utvikling.com> wrote in message
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> Raed Sawalha wrote:
> > float fNumber = atof(csFloatValue);//which is here 0.9999
> > the fNumber contains 0.99990000000000001, how can i format it for
> > only 4 float position like we do in printing to screen
> > (printf("%.4f")........
>
> What do you mean, "format it" ? If you want it in a string, use
sprintf().
> If you want to "format" it in a float, you can't as the value 0.9999 can't
> be represented exactly in a float.
>
>
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>
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> Sigurd
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