in reply to Re^2: RFC: Getting Started with PDL (the Perl Data Language)
in thread RFC: Getting Started with PDL (the Perl Data Language)
One of the c gurus in that thread said that c's precision is only gauranteed to 10 decimal places, but with IEEE standards, it's common to see 15. I see 15.
Eventually, I found mpfr which lets you set how many digits of precision you want to use.
If you can show me a simple c program that computes and displays values out to 50 decimal places, with normal c, I would be greatful. Everything I see truncates it (pi) to 3.(15 decimal places).
For example, in this code, the value of pi is correctly printed as a string on the first line of output, but the subsequent lines all have garbage after the 15th decimal place.
Output:#include <gtk/gtk.h> /* gcc -o test test.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0` */ int main (){ /* how the headers define G_PI */ /* #define G_PI 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751 + */ long double PI = G_PI; g_print("3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751\n"); g_print("%0.50e\n",G_PI); g_print("%0.50Lf\n",G_PI); g_print("%0.50Lf\n",PI); g_print("%0.50Lg\n",PI); g_print("%0.50Le\n",PI); return 0; }
^^^^^^^^^^^ -> unstable after 15 dec +imal 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751 3.14159265358979311599796346854418516159057617187500e+00 -0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 3.14159265358979311599796346854418516159057617187500 3.141592653589793115997963468544185161590576171875 3.14159265358979311599796346854418516159057617187500e+00 ^^^^^^^^^^^^ -> unstable after 15 dec +imal
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Re^4: RFC: Getting Started with PDL (the Perl Data Language)
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Feb 05, 2007 at 15:03 UTC | |
by zentara (Archbishop) on Feb 05, 2007 at 22:10 UTC | |
by zentara (Archbishop) on Feb 05, 2007 at 17:31 UTC |