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Re: Recognizing double precision? [message #56252 is a reply to message #56164]

Tue, 09 October 2007 08:50

R.G.Stockwell
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Registered: October 2004

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"wlandsman" <wlandsman@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1191597160.614557.153160@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
> About once a year I receive a complaint about my code because someone
> inputs a Julian date like this
>
> IDL> jd = 2441636.1

btw, this may be obvious to all, but you can force the input
with a read command, read it as string, and cast it to double.

IDL> .GO

: 2441636.1

S STRING = ' 2441636.1'

2441636.1

single:

2441636.00000

double

2441636.10000

Cheers,
bob

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		Recognizing double precision? By: wlandsman on Fri, 05 October 2007 08:12
		Re: Recognizing double precision? By: edward.s.meinel@aero. on Wed, 10 October 2007 11:21
		Re: Recognizing double precision? By: R.G.Stockwell on Wed, 10 October 2007 08:53
		Re: Recognizing double precision? By: edward.s.meinel@aero. on Wed, 10 October 2007 07:07
		Re: Recognizing double precision? By: R.G.Stockwell on Tue, 09 October 2007 08:50
		Re: Recognizing double precision? By: Maarten[1] on Tue, 09 October 2007 08:24
		Re: Recognizing double precision? By: edward.s.meinel@aero. on Tue, 09 October 2007 08:11
		Re: Recognizing double precision? By: R.Bauer on Wed, 24 October 2007 11:15

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