Shriramana Sharma wrote: > > Why do you consider doubles to store time values? > > Oh, I need to use fractional days (in Julian Day Numbers) for astronomical > calculations. So store time in seconds or milliseconds and divide by 86400 or 86400000 to get days. If 32 bits isn't enough, use "long long". Floating-point is meant for the situation where you want a constant relative error rather than a constant absolute error. For timescales, a constant absolute error is usually more useful. -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
