[PD] numbers seem to be wrongly adding up

[Roman Haefeli]

On Fri, 2021-05-21 at 11:19 +0200, rolfm at dds.nl wrote:

> i had the, apparently, wrong idea that it were the big numbers giving
> problems when using floating point arithmetic.

No, your idea is not wrong. Large numbers are a concern, too. Only
integer numbers up to 16777216 are properly represented by 32-bit
floating point numbers. Above that, a counter incrementing by 1 is
stuck. 

Roman
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