Re: Floating point size

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:32:39 GMT, "charles" <instrulab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>How many digits does Delphi 5 use in the floating point routines and in the
>doubles and in the reals?

Further to Bruce's good advice, I suggest that you look carefully at
the Currency type, if you don't need more than four decimal places it
would make your life significantly easier.

Incedentally the floating point problems have nothing to do with
Borland, they are down to the specification from the IEEE
.

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