philchillbill wrote: > Maybe padding is easier to understand with a money calculation: > > I have $100. My son has $150. We want to know how much we have > combined... > > I calculate $100 + $150 = $250. > > He's a smart-ass with a scientific calculator so he calculates > $100.00000000 + $150.00000000 = $250.00000000. He types those 8 extra > zeroes himself and is very proud. > > Guess what? Either way, we have two hundred and fifty bucks even money. > His padding was of no help whatsoever to the calculation, because it > came after the least significant digit. :rolleyes:
i dint appreciate your post enough - the decimals do make it clearer --- is that how it is ------------------------------------------------------------------------ oshcar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=71999 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114947 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
