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High precision floating point literal values are not preserved exactly. #3

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mbdevpl opened this issue Feb 19, 2018 · 0 comments
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High precision floating point literal values are not preserved exactly. #3

mbdevpl opened this issue Feb 19, 2018 · 0 comments

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mbdevpl commented Feb 19, 2018 •
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E.g. Fortran sqhalf = 0.7071067811865475244 becomes sqhalf = 0.7071067811865476 after transpiling.

The differences come from the not sufficient number of bits used to store the literals. This might not matter in some cases, but in other cases it might cause trouble.
@mbdevpl mbdevpl changed the title High precision floating point constants are not preserved exactly. High precision floating point literal values are not preserved exactly. May 8, 2019
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