[PD] floating-point question

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

That's a problem with floating point calculations on computers, unfortuantely.  Hard to work around that.

.hc

On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:27 PM, Mirko Petrovich wrote:

> Hi all,
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> I'm having a problem with a patch doing some very simple math. The problem is that float 0.1 represents as 0.0999985 in some cases.
> I know this has to do with floating-point representation but sometimes this lead to bigger errors.
> Is there any way to fix this ? Changing the width of the number box doesn't work.
> Thanks for any help and sorry if this has been discussed earlier.
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> Saludos
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> Mirko
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