On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 06:00:37PM +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD wrote:
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> What if he must display 9 digits and says the result is approximately 2.45678932
> would that be worse than 2.46000000 ?
Yup. Trailing zeros are not significant. That's why scientific notation is nice:
you don't fill in all those insignificant placeholders.
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> For above calculation pg will in the future return 0.00000000000000000000 as an
> answer to 1.00000000000001*1000.0-1000.0 when used in my example context, while
> it currently returns 0.000000000010 ...
> You both are saying, that 0.00000000000000000000 is a better answer.
That's right. And correct, as well.
Ross