Re: Problems with float variables in C

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From: Francis Glassborow
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 03:23

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In article <clcm-20010905-0003@plethora.net>, Rishabh Gupta
<rg117@ohm.york.ac.uk> writes
>Hi all,
>    I've been getting really strange results in my program when I use very
>small float values. For example, I check for 0.0 in case of division by zero
>errors but I still get the error. I also get other strange results
>like -0.0000...... (although I'm guessing that its just not displaying all
>the digits)

But if you divide a sufficiently large number by a sufficiently small
one (note that those two conditions are coupled) you will get overflow.


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