On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Kevin Fishburne <kevinfishbu...@eightvirtues.com> wrote: > I have an array (Plan) of a structure (PlanStructure) which contains > several other structures (PlanPortalStructure, etc.):
> Plan[p].Portal[Index].Orientation = 180.2 > > > the value is assigned as 180.1999969. > > Any idea why this is happening?Seems strange that explicitly setting a > type Single to a value would immediately cause precision to be lost; > maybe it has to do with a structure being embedded in another structure? i doubt structures are the issue. floating point values are stored in binary internally so there is a translation between decimal for humans and binary which imparts a slight rounding error can you try Double: this won't fix the problem but will reduce it at a cost of more RAM if you need 100% decimal accuracy (it's usually only high-end financial stuff where you do), then look at gb.gmp component. Again it will cost you in RAM and speed. Ian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
