[Gambas-user] Precision immediately lost when assigning value to type Single structure property

[Kevin Fishburne]

On 04/10/2014 10:50 AM, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
> That is completely expected just try:
> Print csingle(180.2)
> 180,1999969
>
> You cannot express 180.2 precisely with 32 bits.
> Even with 64 bits it's something like: 180.199999999999988631 ...
>

Thanks everyone. I knew floating point variables worked differently than 
integer types but didn't realize the extent of the limitations of their 
precision. I was using the value after the decimal as a flag, or a way 
to store two numbers in one. I've worked around the issue by rounding it.

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