On Jun 4, 2011, at 4:01 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Jerry- > > Saturday, June 4, 2011, 3:52:03 PM, you wrote: > >> LC uses IEEE double-precision binary floating point numbers for >> calculations. These are 64 bits: 52 for mantissa, 11 for exponent >> and 1 for sign. So exponent range won't be a problem, neither will 6 >> decimal places, as long as the number of significant digits is less >> than 15. Be sure to round to that least digit, because calcs are in >> binary. > > Thanks - good to know. But I thought the default numberFormat was to > display only six digits?
I think thats true. Now as for why... ?? --Jerry _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
