From: Patrick Leslie Polzer <leslie.polzer@gmx.net>
To: Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Double values - what precision do I use for fprintf?
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:17:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060112151708.24751b03.leslie.polzer@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601121800.19678.samjnaa@gmail.com>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 631 bytes --]
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:00:19 +0530
Shriramana Sharma <Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com>> wrote:
| First I tried using "%20.15f" as the format string:
|
| [...]
|
| Then I used "%30.25f":
|
| [...]
|
| Ignoring the small differences in the two sets of data (longitude and speed
| of eight celestial bodies computer at two different instants) I wonder - if
I | keep increasing the number of decimal places where will it end?
At some point you will get only zeroes. This point is reached when the mantissa
length is exceeded.
Leslie
--
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D70289
[-- Attachment #2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 189 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-12 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-12 12:30 Double values - what precision do I use for fprintf? Shriramana Sharma
2006-01-12 14:17 ` Patrick Leslie Polzer [this message]
2006-01-12 18:51 ` Steve Graegert
2006-01-12 21:22 ` Nate Jenkins
2006-01-12 22:00 ` Mihai Dontu
2006-01-13 23:47 ` Glynn Clements
2006-01-14 0:35 ` Nate Jenkins
2006-01-17 5:37 ` Glynn Clements
2006-01-12 21:57 ` Scott
2006-01-12 22:06 ` Scott
2006-01-13 5:25 ` Steve Graegert
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20060112151708.24751b03.leslie.polzer@gmx.net \
--to=leslie.polzer@gmx.net \
--cc=linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=samjnaa@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).