OpenEuphoria

Re: atom = problem?

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agri?ul?ure.gouv.fr> Apr 28, 2008
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Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> 
> Jason Gade wrote:
> > 
> > It has to do with the limited precision of how floating point numbers are
> > stored
> > in computer memory. 
> 
> So, it has to do with the good old float problem. I had though Euphoria
> extended
> the capability to take care of that problem, but that's OK. I guess I can do
> the unit testing like this:
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> test_equal("message", sprintf("%.10f", func()), sprintf("%.10f",
> 1.1293843123))
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> a bit more work, but no problem. Thanks for clarifying.
> 
> --
> Jeremy Cowgar
> <a href="http://jeremy.cowgar.com">http://jeremy.cowgar.com</a>

Not only Eu doesn't extend reals or integers, but it doesn't guarantee that the
sum of two integers is an integer - a joke, really!
The extension is to be made through an external library, since there is no
hardware support to count on anyway.

CChris