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[squirreltown]

Rek-thank you, must have been a squirrel !! when I was reading that part of the docs.
Mark - ignoring the "about" in your statement, does that mean that 1000000.5 is the same as 1000000?
So it's 7 total digits, regardless of which side of the decimal?

[belltown]

"squirreltown" wrote:
Rek-thank you, must have been a squirrel !! when I was reading that part of the docs.
Mark - ignoring the "about" in your statement, does that mean that 1000000.5 is the same as 1000000?
So it's 7 total digits, regardless of which side of the decimal?

That's generally how floating-point numbers work; it doesn't matter where the decimal point is.

And "about" means "about". If you want an explanation (and a large squirrel-headache) for the underlying reason why it's "about" and not "exactly", then read these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-precision_floating-point_format