Does anyone know how to find out the precision of long double on a specific platform? I appear to be losing precision after 17 decimal digits, which is the same as when I just use double. I would expect to get more, since double is represented with 8 bytes on my platform, while long double is 12 bytes. Before you ask, this is for Pro...
I have a long double constant that I am setting either as const or not-const. It is longer (40 digits) than the precision of a long double on my test workstation (19 digits). When I print it out, it no longer is displayed at 19 digits of precision, but at 16. Here is the code I am testing: #include <iostream> #include <iomanip> #incl...
I've been reading the C Primer Plus book and got to this example #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { float aboat = 32000.0; double abet = 2.14e9; long double dip = 5.32e-5; printf("%f can be written %e\n", aboat, aboat); printf("%f can be written %e\n", abet, abet); printf("%f can be written %e\n", dip, dip); ...
Working on Mac OS X 10.6.2, Intel, with i686-apple-darwin10-g++-4.2.1, and compiling with the -arch x86_64 flag, I just noticed that while... std::numeric_limits<long double>::max_exponent10 = 4932 ...as is expected, when a long double is actually set to a value with exponent greater than 308, it becomes inf--ie in reality it only has...
Hi, I'm printing a variable say z1 which is a 1-D array containing floating point numbers to a text file so that I can import into Matlab or GNUPlot for plotting. I've heard that binary files (.dat) are smaller than .txt files. The definition that I currently use for printing to a .txt file is: void create_out_file(const char *file_nam...