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Re: Adding double-float values together

From Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: Adding double-float values together
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Date 2013-08-15 08:39 -0700

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On 8/14/13 9:17 PM, industrial_one@hotmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, August 15, 2013 2:04:01 AM UTC, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> I don't think you need every detail -- not in this case, but I think my
>>
>> interpretation of "here's a sample of the log file from 2008" was not
>>
>> unreasonable.
>
> You're right, I should've just posted the actual file instead. But to be fair, what kind of weird program would store values in ASCII floats? It should be safe to assume that I was posting ascii hex values but I guess you don't expect a programming newb to even know how to do this.
You'd be surprised at what some people do with file formats.  I've seen 
Binary encoded in base64, then wrapped in XML, then gzipped.

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Adding double-float values together industrial_one@hotmail.com - 2013-08-14 09:40 -0700
  Re: Adding double-float values together Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-08-14 18:23 +0100
    Re: Adding double-float values together industrial_one@hotmail.com - 2013-08-14 10:35 -0700
      Re: Adding double-float values together Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-08-14 19:22 +0100
        Re: Adding double-float values together industrial_one@hotmail.com - 2013-08-14 12:20 -0700
          Re: Adding double-float values together Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-08-15 02:05 +0100
            Re: Adding double-float values together Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-08-15 02:36 +0100
            Re: Adding double-float values together industrial_one@hotmail.com - 2013-08-14 18:42 -0700
              Re: Adding double-float values together Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-08-15 03:04 +0100
                Re: Adding double-float values together industrial_one@hotmail.com - 2013-08-14 21:17 -0700
                Re: Adding double-float values together Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-08-15 08:39 -0700
                Re: Adding double-float values together Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-08-15 17:02 +0100
                Re: Adding double-float values together industrial_one@hotmail.com - 2013-08-16 02:25 -0700
                Re: Adding double-float values together Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-08-16 12:45 +0100
                Re: Adding double-float values together industrial_one@hotmail.com - 2013-08-20 01:55 -0700
                Re: Adding double-float values together Jongware <jongware@no-spam.plz> - 2013-08-20 12:40 +0200
                Re: Adding double-float values together "Julio Di Egidio" <julio@diegidio.name> - 2013-08-20 20:53 +0100
                Re: Adding double-float values together Robert Miles <milesrf@Usenet-News.net> - 2013-08-24 09:22 -0500
                Re: Adding double-float values together "Julio Di Egidio" <julio@diegidio.name> - 2013-08-24 15:49 +0100

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