Of course! I don't think binary! Keith
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:42:12 +0100 Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > At 15:55 13/08/2014 +1000, Keith Bates wrote: > >While I agree with most of your post, a slight typo or something > >crept in here, where you confuse 10^53 with 2^53 > > > >>2^53 is one followed by fifty-three zeroes, of course - so is just > >>too long to be stored accurately. > > I wasn't clear - but not in the way you thought! I meant that 2^53 is > represented *in binary* (as it will be in the computer) as one > followed by fifty-three zeroes, of course. So it's the value that is > just too large to be stored accurately in double precision. (As so > often happens, I spotted that omission just after I had sent the > message!) > > Brian Barker > > -- God bless you Keith Bates Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Follow Him. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
