[Gambas-user] Check on entered number having more than 6 digits not working

[Emil Lenngren]

A 64-bit floating point value use to have about 14-15 correct digits.

/Emil

2012/8/13 nando <nando_f at ...951...>

> That's perfectly fine.
> Let me offer this plan of attack.
> Test if it is between -90 and +90
> multiply by 1,000,000 into an INTEGER
> which chops all decimal digits to the right of the decimal point.
> then if you need float, divide by 1,000,000.
> But if you do that , don't be surprised for digits farther to the right
> of the 6th decimal point because it's float.
> -Fernando
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> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: John Rose <john.aaron.rose at ...626...>
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> Sent: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:31:32 +0100
> Subject: [Gambas-user] Check on entered number having more than 6 digits
> not working
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> > Fernando,
> > The number of digits does matter. The use of this Gambas app is for
> > maintenance of a database which is used by an Android app that I'm
> > currently developing. I don't intend to discuss why the number of digits
> > matters to the Android app except to say that it does. Thus, the Gambas
> > app is required to do this validation.
> >
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