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Re: Recognizing double precision? [message #56163 is a reply to message #56155]

Fri, 05 October 2007 08:16

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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wlandsman writes:

> So it would it be reasonable to request that the IDL compiler
> recognize a number as double precision, if it has too many digits to
> be stored as a floating point number?

Too helpful. My God, if the compiler did this any
kid could come in off the street and do our job!

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Recognizing double precision? By: Bringfried Stecklum on Sat, 06 October 2007 15:21
		Re: Recognizing double precision? By: R.G.Stockwell on Fri, 05 October 2007 10:26
		Re: Recognizing double precision? By: David Fanning on Fri, 05 October 2007 08:16
		Re: Recognizing double precision? By: wlandsman on Mon, 08 October 2007 06:18

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