From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shriramana Sharma Subject: Re: Integer arithmetic vs double precision arithmetic Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:54:28 +0530 Message-ID: <200603262154.28395.samjnaa@gmail.com> References: <200603262044.37068.samjnaa@gmail.com> <6a00c8d50603260812q1ebddc26uae1c9b70bbe0d46e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <6a00c8d50603260812q1ebddc26uae1c9b70bbe0d46e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linux C Programming List Sunday, 26 March 2006 21:42 samaye tvayaa likhitam: > Why do you consider doubles to store time values? Oh, I need to use fractional days (in Julian Day Numbers) for astronomical calculations. P.S: Thanks Steve and Glynn, for your feedback on my questions. -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.51 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-03-26 W12-7 UTC+0530