On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 15:48 +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
> Martin (OpenGeoMap) wrote:
> > I am building an intermediate  unit system for engineeres in Gobject and 
> > i hope publish this library soon.
> > With this system you always work in lineal measures in meters (double), 
> > and you can input others (inches, centimeters)
> > 
> > input system - intermediate system -out system
> > 
> > you can input in a entry for example (22m, 22 m, 220cm,...) and 
> > internally you have a double always in meters.
> 
> How do you deal with precision? 22 m is not the same as 22.000 m

Bad example.  22 can be expressed exactly in 2s complement.  3 cannot.

> 
> Cheers, Dave
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