From:	your AT name DOT here (Kirk Hobart)
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Subject:	Re: LARGE numbers.
Date:	Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:36:34 GMT
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isaacc AT flash DOT net wrote:
>I want to store the following number (25834242042) as an int, I declare it as usual:
>
>int var = 258342042;
>
>yet the number is obviouslu too large to store as an integer (even an unsigned one).
>Subsequently I try to store it as both 'float' and 'double' - yet they wont even hold a number of 
>this size!

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
  double    a = 25834242042.0;
  float     b = 25834242042.0;    
  long long c = 25834242042;

  printf("   double: %.1f\n", a);
  printf("    float: %.1f\n", b);
  printf("long long: %Ld\n",  c);
  return 0;
}

Compile with djgpp and run...

   double: 25834242042.0
    float: 25834242048.0
long long: 25834242042

Notice the round-off error in the float.

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