At 06:16 PM 8/9/00 +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: >Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >>As an engineer I would really like to know when you are going to > >>run out of precision in double - that is forty something bits of mantissa. > >>That is more precision than you have in the real world. > > > >It's not precision, it's resolution. What do you do if your timers return > >values in 1/10ths of a second? > >What is the problem with that? You can't accurately represent a tenth of a second with floating point numbers. If we're going to handle them, we might as well be exact. Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk
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