On Thursday 16 January 2003 01:47 pm, Ugen wrote:
> Try this:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main()
> {
> double pi = 3.14159265358979323846 ;
>
> printf("%20.19f\n", pi);
> }
>
> and here is what you get:
> host: [16:45] [127] /tmp>./test
> 3.1415926535897931160
>
> The error in last 4 or digits is obvious. It seems
> that the culprit is __dtoa which incorrectly turns
> double precision numbers into strings.
> This is on FreeBSD 4.3 release..
>
> Ideas?
I thought that a 64-bit floating point was limited to around 16 digits.
That ends as ...793.
Kent
> --Ugen
>
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