[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dave Howorth wrote: >> Martin (OpenGeoMap) wrote: >> >>> 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.
Any integer can be exactly expressed in two's complement. Doubles don't use two's complement. They can also exactly represent a very large number of integers. - Ernie http://home.comcast.net/~erniew _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
