ajitnk wrote:
>
> Is there any way to prevent rounding off OR do i have to use different data
> type ?
As the other posters have said, floating point numbers aren't the right
thing if you need exact representations.
That said, on the Palm platform you can have both single-precision and
double-precision floating point variables. I find that with doubles, I
don't get a significant amount of precision error in my programs, but
with single-precision floats, I can easily see bad precision.
For example, pow(sqrt(2), 8) should yield 16.0, and it does when you use
the double-precision MathLib version of pow() and sqrt(). If instead
you use PRC-Tools' single-precision math library, you get 15.999996....
or something like that.
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