Re: AppleScript bug with 15+ digits.
Re: AppleScript bug with 15+ digits.
- Subject: Re: AppleScript bug with 15+ digits.
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 09:13:33 -0700
At 06:29 +0200 4/2/03, Philippe GRUCHET wrote:
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But it's always a string: is there a way to get it back as a number?
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--> 3.141592653589793
Don't forget about the basic limitations of IEEE floating point "doubles" which simply will not handle more than about 15 significant decimal digits. So long as the software uses the hardware-provided floating point on the chip for calculations you just won't do better - at least until 64 bit processors become more common.
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--> If you are presented a number as a percentage, and you do not clearly understand the numerator and the denominator involved, you are surely being lied to. <--
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