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Article #516Re: Problems with float variables in C
From: Ramon van Alteren
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 03:23
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 03:23
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Rishabh Gupta wrote: Are you using the right variable-types ? If the values are very small you might overflow the float. This produces very strange results indeed. Grtz Ram0n > 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) > My system is > Pentium II 500 Mhz, 128MB > Linux Mandrake 8.0 > I have checked my program repeatedly and I can't find anything wrong with > it (its not even very complicated). Could the problem be a bug in the > compiler (GCC) or is it just supposed to do this? > > If anyone can help I would be very greatful. > Many Thanks!! > > Rishabh -- comp.lang.c.moderated - moderation address: clcm@plethora.net
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