Am 20. September 2020 16:41:56 MESZ schrieb "hans w. koch" <hansw.k...@gmail.com>: > yeah, this is consistent with my findings too… > it just mystifies me, why writing the contents of [text] containing > symbols to a .txt file and reloading converts them silently back to > floats, perserving precision. > seems like the .txt file format does some behind-the-scenes magic.
hmm, no. the behaviour you are seeing is exactly because [text] does NOT do any behind the scenes magic. all the problems come from the fact that the default string-representation (and only the string-representation) of numbers is too coarse for double-precision. mfg.hft.fsl IOhannes _______________________________________________ Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
