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Re: converting floats to doubles [message #44102]

Fri, 20 May 2005 14:35

Michael Wallace
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Registered: December 2003

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>> dblarr(n) is the same as double(fltarr(n)). The fltarr(n) will create
>> n many floating point numbers, all of which are 0. Converting all
>> these floats into doubles will yield a double array where all values
>> are 0 and this is the very same thing as dblarr(n).
>
>
> Actually I meant dindgen(n) vs. double(findgen(n)) in the first place. I
> always mix them up ... But I think I got the point.

Ah, okay. Same logic still applies.

Because doubles have the same structure as floats, but more capacity,
the set of all possible double precision values on a particular
architecture is a superset of the set of all possible single precision
(float) values on the same architecture. That, in short, was what all
my rambling before was trying to say. I have never been one to really
understand what the word "concise" means. :-)

-Mike

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		Re: converting floats to doubles By: Michael Wallace on Fri, 20 May 2005 14:35
		Re: converting floats to doubles By: Benjamin Hornberger on Fri, 20 May 2005 13:58
		Re: converting floats to doubles By: Michael Wallace on Fri, 20 May 2005 13:52
		Re: converting floats to doubles By: Dick Jackson on Fri, 20 May 2005 13:17
		Re: converting floats to doubles By: Peter Mason on Sun, 22 May 2005 16:01

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