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From: norm@rocksanne.uucp (Norm Zeck)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Significant zeros - Is there a fix?
Message-ID: <2510001@rocksanne.uucp>
Date: 7 Oct 88 13:24:00 GMT
Organization: Xerox Corp.; WRC/ISL, Rochester, NY
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	With all the noted problems of significant zeros in floating point
	numbers, does anyone have a work around using cps?  Looks like limiting
	the precision to four decmial places in pprintf may work.  But
	has anyone fixed this?

	I have also tried using the "fixed" type of 16.16 (16 bit integer,
	16 bit fraction represented as a long, but pprintf gets a memory
	violation in the code for parsing %e (fixed) numbers.


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Norm Zeck
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