(Also, someone could make this "an XXX bits float can store a YYY bits
integer" a bit more clear as I personally still don't really understand
it.
I also remember vaguely some criticism of this system, that it is not
very
efficient? Matju? If you guys explain it here on the list I'll be happy
to
add it to the wiki.)
Andras
With a 32-bit float, some of the bits go to representing the exponent
part, therefore there is not the full 32-bits available to represent an
integer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significand
It's worse than that though. Pd uses the %g format specifier when it
writes out the pd patch (e.g. printf("%g", number)), so floats get
simplified. It's possible to use a high precision number by entering it
in the patch but when you reopen the patch it will have been simplified.
Martin
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