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| Subject: | Re: calc VAL field not updating from bi VAL field |
| From: | Maren Purves <[email protected]> |
| To: | Eric Norum <[email protected]> |
| Cc: | [email protected] |
| Date: | Wed, 30 May 2012 09:43:28 -1000 |
Eric Norum wrote:
On May 30, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Tim Mooney wrote:…..It seems that the integer to double conversion really is not exact for 1.That seems like a pretty huge flaw in the architecture! I've never encountered a machine with arithmetic that bad!
I have experienced very bad rounding errors (in a gensub, in C code) on a ppc604/mv5100 - to the point that I had to re-order the arithmetic. Bad arithmetic isn't unheard of. Aloha, Maren