On Monday 05 September 2005 13:58, Neil Ferguson wrote: > This is the behaviour I'd expect. > > The 1.0e-10 is being represented as a double-precision floating point > value. Not all values can be represented exactly, and in this case the > machine picks the closest value to 1.0e-10 that it can represent. Well, that's alright, but why does gcc print out such a long number? And where does it get the rest from? Regards, Florian -- Florian Hackenberger student @ University of Technology Graz, Austria florian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.hackenberger.at
