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| From | Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> |
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| Subject | Re: floating point |
| Date | Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:22:02 +0300 |
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Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> writes: > On 7/24/2012 12:57 PM, bob smith wrote: >> Let's say you have an integer and a float in an operation. Is the > May I ask why you are using float? Because of its very limited > precision, it is better to use double unless there is a specific reason ..and even better to use BigDecimal, if you need all the decimals to be correct, like when calculating any amounts of money. Of course, there are situations where rounding errors don't matter and double is good enough. Like, I suppose, some statistical calculations. -- Jukka Lahtinen
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floating point bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-07-24 12:57 -0700
Re: floating point markspace <-@.> - 2012-07-24 13:01 -0700
Re: floating point Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 13:21 -0700
Re: floating point Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-07-24 13:50 -0700
Re: floating point Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-25 06:33 -0700
Re: floating point Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-07-25 10:44 -0700
Re: floating point Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-07-25 17:09 -0700
Re: floating point Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-07-25 17:42 -0700
Re: floating point Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-07-26 03:15 +0200
Re: floating point Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-07-25 21:05 -0400
Re: floating point Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-07-24 20:34 +0000
Re: floating point Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-07-24 13:29 -0700
Re: floating point Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2012-07-25 12:22 +0300
Re: floating point Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-07-25 10:54 -0400
Re: floating point Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-25 13:29 -0700
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