> This explains your second output. However, I am at a loss at the first
output.
> While I cant explain that, the fact that the difference is near a power of
> 2 suggests that it has got something similar to do with the storage of the
> mantissa again.
essentially u r guranteed a precesion of 6 digits... anything after the 6
digits is dependent on the number and the storage method used to store the
floating point number... In fact the first output just happened to be so
close to the original number. It cud hav been anything.. this is just pure
luck ;) The mantissa is stored as a floating point number in base 2, and
this is one of the strange effects of that reason. In fact i remember that
with ms gwbasic, u cud not store some simple numbers as floating point
numbers.
Bye,
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