X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f X-Recipient: djgpp AT delorie DOT com From: Sterten AT aol DOT com Message-ID: Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:18:37 EST Subject: Re: double To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1203675517" X-Mailer: 9.0 SE for Windows sub 5018 X-Spam-Flag: NO Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com -------------------------------1203675517 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit so, what's the difference between float x; and double x; ? 40 bits ? I need real numbers with high precision -------------------------------1203675517 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
so, what's the difference between
 
float x;
 
and
 
double x;
 ?
 
40 bits ?
 
I need real numbers with high precision
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