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Re: Recognizing double precision? [message #56282 is a reply to message #56155]

Mon, 08 October 2007 06:18

wlandsman
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Registered: June 2000

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Bob, Bringfried,

> Well, to play devil's advocate, the programmer should not let the
> user input single precision data in such a case.
>

Except that single precision or even a long integer (e.g. 2441636)
*could* be valid, if the user was not interested in fractional
days. I agree that it is probably safest to force the user to
input double precision, but this does not feel like the "IDL way".
Thanks, --Wayne

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		Re: Recognizing double precision? By: Bringfried Stecklum on Sat, 06 October 2007 15:21
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