[PD] no pd?? WTF ????

[Martin Peach]

But whatever the theoretical precision of a float, I think the thing 
that makes Pd floats less precise than Max floats lies in the use of the 
%g format specifier to print them out, which can result in a lower 
precision than the float is capable of. This makes it possible to use 
maximum precision float calculations inside of objects but not between 
them. (and of course nothing stops an object using doubles internally.)

Martin

On 2012-01-13 08:11, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> Le 2012-01-13 à 08:05:00, Mathieu Bouchard a écrit :
>
>> Neither binary nor decimal representation is more precise than the
>> other, it's just that their precision never matches exactly. 20 bits
>> is slightly less than 6 decimals, whereas 16 decimals is slightly more
>> than 53 bits. Thus you can only preserve precision by using slightly
>> too many digits, otherwise you'll have too few.
>
> erratum : i meant that 20 bits is slightly more than 6 decimals.
>
> 20 bits = 6.0205... decimals
> 24 bits = 7.2247... decimals
> 53 bits = 15.9545... decimals
>
> (And by «decimal» here, I mean all significant digits, not the other
> meaning of the word)
>
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