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Re: Any Reason This Shouldn't Work?
« Reply #30 on: October 06, 2010, 07:38:01 pm »
Never mind, my code failed. :(

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Re: Any Reason This Shouldn't Work?
« Reply #31 on: October 06, 2010, 07:40:05 pm »
What was it supposed to do?
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Re: Any Reason This Shouldn't Work?
« Reply #32 on: October 06, 2010, 07:44:07 pm »
Fail. :(
No, it was to demonstrate floating point rounding errors.  It was simple enough that it didn't work.  It should work now. :)  (Edited)

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Re: Any Reason This Shouldn't Work?
« Reply #33 on: October 06, 2010, 07:45:26 pm »
Yeah, the calc only shows 11 digits of accuracy, while it really holds 14 :)




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Re: Any Reason This Shouldn't Work?
« Reply #34 on: October 06, 2010, 11:49:50 pm »
Isn't the error only in the decimal places? Like if you have a fourteen digit number shouldn't it retain those?
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Re: Any Reason This Shouldn't Work?
« Reply #35 on: October 06, 2010, 11:54:03 pm »
Yeah. But the point is fPart( often leaves that extra bit of inaccuracy which isn't displayed. They're a pain to debug x.x




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Re: Any Reason This Shouldn't Work?
« Reply #36 on: October 06, 2010, 11:56:03 pm »
Ya, I know, was just making sure :) Thanks again guys.
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Re: Any Reason This Shouldn't Work?
« Reply #37 on: October 07, 2010, 12:05:54 am »
Yeah. But the point is fPart( often leaves that extra bit of inaccuracy which isn't displayed. They're a pain to debug x.x
That reminds me this topic. Is it the same thing?

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Re: Any Reason This Shouldn't Work?
« Reply #38 on: October 07, 2010, 12:18:50 am »
It seems to be...