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Re: Floating Array Shows no numbers after the dot [message #29457 is a reply to message #29455]

Wed, 20 February 2002 01:32

Martin Downing
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Registered: September 1998

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"Emmler, Oliver" <oemmler@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote in message
news:a4tre2$lgv$1@news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de...
> Hi,
>
> I tried the following:
>
> Array = FLTARR[15]
> Time = 123456.123456
> Array[0] = Time
> Print, Array[0]
>
> All numbers after the colon are gone.
>
> Can anyone help ?
> Do i have to use DCOMPLEXARR ?
> Is this problem caused by Pre-Formatting due to the system ?
>
Hi Oliver,

The answer is simple - the FLOAT type which you are using has only 6
significant digits, whereas type DOUBLE has a couple more, and COMPLEX is
for complex numbers :)
[hmm - as an aside, does anyone know why DOUBLE can only store 2 more digits
cf. FLOAT considering it uses 4 extra bytes which is enough for a 10 digit
LONG ?]

Martin

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		Re: Floating Array Shows no numbers after the dot By: Martin Downing on Wed, 20 February 2002 07:09
		Re: Floating Array Shows no numbers after the dot By: tam on Wed, 20 February 2002 06:19
		Re: Floating Array Shows no numbers after the dot By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 20 February 2002 06:26
		Re: Floating Array Shows no numbers after the dot By: Martin Downing on Wed, 20 February 2002 01:32
		Re: Floating Array Shows no numbers after the dot By: David Fanning on Tue, 19 February 2002 09:26
		Re: Floating Array Shows no numbers after the dot By: R.Bauer on Tue, 19 February 2002 09:07

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