Re: Determining number of decimal positions

[David Leland]

Unfortunately, I don't have that luxury.  My App is a plug-in to another and
I'm being passed a float value so I can't control that side of it.

Dave

Peter Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:41307@palm-dev-forum...
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> This may be one of those situations where you should use a fixed point
representation rather than floating point. The problem with floating point
binary representations is that they can't exactly represent simply values
like 8.95, introducing the possibility of round-off errors. For example, the
number 9.85 might come out as 9.849999999997 or some such. You could try to
keep track of how many digits you expect to the right of the decimal point,
but it might be better to use a fixed point representation.
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> Peter Epstein
> Palm Inc. Developer
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