Mike
This explanation from Mark Waddingham confirms that numbers are held in IEEE
754 format - http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9349
I’m pretty sure it is 64-bit. I tried multiplying a value of Pi with more
significant digits than a 32 bit number can hold in the message box:
Code:
put format ("%.30g",3.14159265358979323846264338327950 * 1.0)
Result:
3.14159265358979311599796346854
Hope this helps
Peter
> On 18 Mar 2015, at 06:21, Michael Doub <miked...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Can anyone point me to a reference that discusses the precision of
> livecode's math calculations? Is it doing IEEE 754 64-bit floating point
> under the covers?
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>
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