in reply to losing precision reading numbers from file

Here is a table for reference:

Type Approximate range Precision
float ±1.5 × 10−45 to ±3.4 × 1038 7 digits
double ±5.0 × 10−324 to ±1.7 × 10308 15-16 digits
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