Monday, 27 March 2006 02:33 samaye, Glynn Clements alekhiit: > 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. Could you clarify that a bit? How do you mean "constant relative error" as against "constant absolute error"? -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.51 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-03-27 W13-1 UTC+0530 - : 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