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• Posted by Lewis Townsend <keroltarr at HOTMAIL.COM> May 11, 1998
• 852 views

Greetings,

>The number isn't rounded, that's alll there is. Computer
hardware/software is li
>mited
>to a set number of digits in a floating point number, that's why you
shouldn't r
>elly
>on atoms as they can be off somewhere down the line, but as Euphoria
uses double
>s
>you don't have to worry about it too much. Try printing 2 / 3 to 15+
places, you
>'lll
>find a seven at the end. To go to anything more needs a complex
software, which
>should
>probablely be written in Machine Code.

Thanks for the info, I was kinda wondering if that wasn't the way it
was, infact, I doubt I'd ever need anything to more than 15 decimal
places for any reason other than curriosity.

Thanks,
Lewis Townsend
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