On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 16:30 -0500, zentara wrote: > Please pardon my basic questions, but I am self taught > and run into questions I can't solve thru googling. > > I see that G_PI is defined in the header to > 3.14159265358979323846 > > So on my 32 bit Athlon machine, I get limited precision > to 15 decimal places, do I need a 64 bit machine for better > precision? Or is there a different format to use? Google? Did you try Wikipedia? double is 64 bits everywhere; 52 bits of mantissa gives 15 decimal places. (Remember, 1 bit is 0.3 bans). long double may have the precision you're after, again, read Wikipedia. Ed _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
