> Cool. If you're mainly going to be dealing with just summing > columns of numbers, you won't have to worry much about the > floating point stuff.
Yes, that is the bulk of it. Averaging and rounding in this case will be par for the course. > I should have said, "you won't necessarily get back your original > number." I understood you. I recall reading some nasty things about floating point math with [ahem] certain processors about five years ago, and then doing a bunch of experiments with the (then) new Netfinity boxes. Like physics, the deeper you go, the more rules get broken. MPF -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
