On Jun 30, 2005, at 2:54 PM, Norman Palardy wrote:
Some other private emails have asked the same thing.
And, you're right, that as long as you use it this way you will
probably never exceed the mantissa and are likely to remain using
essentially an integer value.
But, using the current size (in my example i) in a calculation with
other values, etc is going to result in floating point arithmetic and
thereby some kind of cumulative error because of the range that can be
represented.
A long integer would avoid any such calculation errors long term.
No argument there. A long integer would be the preferred solution to
this problem. I just wanted to make sure that we agreed on a floating
point being able to handle the number. As you say, since you are doing
other calculations you do have to worry about introducing floating
point error. Just had me worried for a minute. Being one of the older
guys on the list you have to worry about Alzheimers you know. :-)
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