On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:42:38 +0100 Peter Wehrfritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
babbled:

> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) schrieb:
> > (floating point numbers may lose accuracy as they are decoded as
> > decimal and thus when encoded again may not be exactly the same).
> >   
> Afaik, there is no accuracy loss if you convert a hexadecimal (or 
> binary) number into a decimal number since 10 has 2 as a prime factor. I 
> don't know, however, how many digits you will need. Bigger problem could 
> be that eet use %f instead of %e. So really big or really small numbers 
> are not covered.

sure - so when you are editing your text representation - you really want to
edit floats in hex... right? :) point is the text is to make it human
readable/editable as people seem to bitch a lot. there is no other use for it
as the files are portable as-is in binary.


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