20 Oct
2011
20 Oct
'11
3:23 a.m.
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 01:19:51PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, David Cantrell wrote:
No, it tells you that it can *represent no more than* 24 binary
significant digits.
float pi = 3.1f; /* close enough for government work */
that the *type* can have 24 significant binary digits doesn't mean
that the *data* has 24 significant binary digits.
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I would like to be able to:
* mark a variable as being an approximation, and with how precise it is;
THAT is
already present. "float" in C means that it is an approximation
to 24 binary significant digits.