21 May
2021
21 May
'21
11:48 a.m.
On Fri, 2021-05-21 at 11:19 +0200, rolfm@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