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RE: [Help-gsl] strange behaviour of addition of floats and exponential f
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Chandra Sekhar Mallarapu |
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RE: [Help-gsl] strange behaviour of addition of floats and exponential function |
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Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:59:57 +0000 |
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From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso address@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 5:27 PM
To: Chandra Sekhar Mallarapu
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Help-gsl] strange behaviour of addition of floats and exponential
function
On 26 January 2011 09:18, Chandra Sekhar Mallarapu
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I am trying to do C=A+B, where
> A=0.0000000000000000021675312011946934078589202290913712085038187871567725434340800916288571897894144058
What data types are A, B, and C? I don't think there are any float
types in any common architecture that are broad enough to be accurate
to that many digits.
A, B, C are double data type in C. Even if its not accurate till the last
digit, shouldn't it be accurate to some digits atleast?
--chandra