[Gambas-user] floating point and single datatype precision...

[sbungay]

  Um... yeah... right...
  So exactly HOW does the storage mechanism work such that it returns an 
incorrect result? If one was to store the value 22.79 into a variable of 
type single in C would one expect it to return a value other than 22.79?
This means variables of type single and float can not be relied upon to 
return the value we store to them. IMHO that is not a good thing.

Fabien Bodard wrote:
> Le Samedi 5 Août 2006 02:03, sbungay a écrit :
> 
>>    Anybody know Why it is that when a value like 22.79 is stored in a
>>variable of type single, it represents it internally as 22.7900009155227?
>>   Just curious.
> 
> because of the binary storing...
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