Re: float32, float64?
- Posted by "Boehme, Gabriel" <gboehme at POSTOFFICE.MUSICLAND.COM> Nov 19, 1999
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Bernie Ryan responded: > I don't use these to test atoms. The idea of type define is to prevent > a variable from accepting a value that is within a given range. I use > them as a new user defined variable types. That's perfectly fine. However, look closely at what Lucius asked for in his original post: Lucius originally wrote: >I don't think I should have to convert the value to a float32 >sequence and back just to see if the stored value is accurate. > > I know that float64 is as accurate as I can get. I don't >want to store numbers as float64 if I can accurately store >them as float32. Notice how the word "accurate" is stressed. My interpretation of this was that he wanted a check for the most *accurate* machine type, not simply the general numeric ranges. If my impression is wrong, I apologize, but I wanted to be sure that his concerns about accuracy were addressed. Hep yadda, Gabriel Boehme ---------- Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of "touching" a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it. G.K. Chesterton ----------