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Article #84Re: Wrong calc with Double
From: Craig Stuntz TeamB
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 19:37
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 19:37
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Jose Maria Sanmartin wrote: > In the MessageBox I get -2.8421709430404E-14 instead of 0. I wouldn't call that wrong. -2.84 ^-14 is pretty darn close to zero. This is normal floating point rounding error. You might want to read this: http://www.guidogybels.net/index.html?floats.html -- Craig Stuntz [TeamB] � Vertex Systems Corp. � Columbus, OH Delphi/InterBase Weblog : http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz Everything You Need to Know About InterBase Character Sets: http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/articles/403.aspx
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