Re: This calculation is just wrong / computer can't count!



On 4 Okt., 17:00, "GT" <ContactGT_remove...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
".rhavin grobert" <cl...@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
On 4 Okt., 16:24, "GT" <ContactGT_remove...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What do you mean by the number might be below double granularity on the
computer? What can I do about this?

your computer stores floatingpoints (float, double, long double) in a
format like

[sign][exponent][fraction]. that means that it can distinguish between
0.0000003 and 0.0000004 but perhaps not between 700000.0000003 and
700000.0000004. on the other hand, it can handle numbers up to
3.4028235*(10^38) for a 32-bit floating point variable.

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