Hi Pascal,
I see the same behaviour in j806 as j805. Do you see something different?
JVERSION
Engine: j806/j64avx/darwin
Beta-4: commercial/2017-06-27T12:55:06
Library: 8.06.03
Qt IDE: 1.5.3/5.6.2
Platform: Darwin 64
Installer: J806 install
InstallPath: /users/bobtherriault/j64-806
Contact: www.jsoftware.com
(; datatype) 999999999999999.3
┌────┬────────┐
│1e15│floating│
└────┴────────┘
(; datatype) 9999999999999999.3
┌─────────────────┬───────┐
│10000000000000000│integer│
└─────────────────┴───────┘
(; datatype) 99999999999999999.3
┌──────────────────┬───────┐
│100000000000000000│integer│
└──────────────────┴───────┘
(; datatype) 999999999999999999.3
┌───────────────────┬───────┐
│1000000000000000000│integer│
└───────────────────┴───────┘
(; datatype) 9999999999999999999.3
┌────┬────────┐
│1e19│floating│
└────┴────────┘
Cheers, bob
> On Aug 9, 2017, at 7:54 AM, 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> in j806, 9999999999999999.310000000000000000 probably the j805 behaviour
> is preferred. If only for consistency. But there may be a good reason for
> change.
>
> From: robert therriault <[email protected]>
> To: Programming forum <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 10:40 AM
> Subject: [Jprogramming] Integer-floating type change for large numbers in
> j805 and j806
>
> I am guessing that the following has something to do with precision of large
> numbers in j805 and is also true for j806.
>
> (; datatype) 999999999999999.3
> ┌────┬────────┐
> │1e15│floating│
> └────┴────────┘
> (; datatype) 9999999999999999.3
> ┌─────────────────┬───────┐
> │10000000000000000│integer│
> └─────────────────┴───────┘
> (; datatype) 99999999999999999.3
> ┌──────────────────┬───────┐
> │100000000000000000│integer│
> └──────────────────┴───────┘
> (; datatype) 999999999999999999.3
> ┌───────────────────┬───────┐
> │1000000000000000000│integer│
> └───────────────────┴───────┘
> (; datatype) 9999999999999999999.3
> ┌────┬────────┐
> │1e19│floating│
> └────┴────────┘
> JVERSION
> Engine: j805/j64/darwin
> Release: commercial/2016-12-11T08:17:56
> Library: 8.05.14
> Qt IDE: 1.5.4/5.6.2
> Platform: Darwin 64
> Installer: J805 install
> InstallPath: /applications/j64-805
> Contact: www.jsoftware.com
>
> Further investigation shows me it was not this way with the 32 bit version of
> j701, so it may be an artifact of moving to 64 bit?
>
> (; datatype) 999999999999999.3
> ┌────┬────────┐
> │1e15│floating│
> └────┴────────┘
> (; datatype) 9999999999999999.3
> ┌────┬────────┐
> │1e16│floating│
> └────┴────────┘
> (; datatype) 999999999999999999.3
> ┌────┬────────┐
> │1e18│floating│
> └────┴────────┘
> (; datatype) 9999999999999999999.3
> ┌────┬────────┐
> │1e19│floating│
> └────┴────────┘
> JVERSION
> Engine: j701/2011-01-10/11:25
> Library: 7.01.088
> Platform: Darwin 32
> Installer: j701a_mac_intel.dmg
> InstallPath: /Applications/j701
>
> Cheers, bob
>
>
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