21 Oct
2011
21 Oct
'11
5:21 p.m.
On 21 Oct 2011 at 23:43, Benjamin S?lberg wrote:
Howzabout:
77 PI PIC 9V9 VALUE 3.1.
--Chuck
That looks like cobol to me ?
/Benjamin
Yup. Could just as easily be done in PL/I:
DECLARE PI FIXED DECIMAL (2,1) INITIAL(3.2);
--Chuck
> DOES,
INDEED, give you 24 significant digts OF WHAT YOU FED IT.
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011,
David Cantrell wrote:
> What I'm getting at is that there's no widely understood datatype
> that lets me say: pi = 3.1 to two significant decimal digits;