really small numbers
use long double or unsigned double OR long unsigned double.
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Long is the biggest / smallest you can go. Its 64bits if i''m not mistaken
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quote:Original post by Mulligan
er, you can't do that.
According to the standard you can. But then again, MSVC isn't totally compliant, if that's what you're basing your assumptions on.
[edited by - zealouselixir on August 30, 2002 12:45:35 AM]
I think that float should be able to handle it, but if float doesn''t work try double . Thats in c++. In VB, I''m not sure, I believe the types are something like single and double .
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oops, you can do that. Whats the smallest value possble when using a long unsigned double?
Floating point numbers only have precision loss on VERY little numbers - your one isn't very little 
66.7f is as good as 0.00000000006670f
that's why it's called floating point...
even that number is nice for a float and won't have badder precision than the above:
0.000000000000000000000000000000000000006670f
Don't use "long double"! They are 80-bit numbers and the FPU can't handle loading them from memory in a calculation, so the compiler must add a load instruction before every one. "double" should be enough for everything, and even float is good enough for most things. "float" is also much faster.
[edited by - noVum on August 31, 2002 1:01:44 AM]
66.7f is as good as 0.00000000006670f
that's why it's called floating point...
even that number is nice for a float and won't have badder precision than the above:
0.000000000000000000000000000000000000006670f
Don't use "long double"! They are 80-bit numbers and the FPU can't handle loading them from memory in a calculation, so the compiler must add a load instruction before every one. "double" should be enough for everything, and even float is good enough for most things. "float" is also much faster.
[edited by - noVum on August 31, 2002 1:01:44 AM]
quote:Original post by TheBlackJester
Long is the biggest / smallest you can go. Its 64bits if i''m not mistaken
Uh, no. In Win32, a long is equivalent to a 32-bit integer. Doubles are 64-bits, and long doubles are 80-bits, according to the standard.
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