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emporer YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	Losing decimal places May 31st, 2010, 12:57pm   Hello, I've got a problem. In one of my programs, I need variables with more than 10 decimal places. No matter what I do, my variables always lose their decimal places except one. I tried out float and double, I even googled for help, but I just can't find a way to fix that. Is there one? Thanks in advance emp

koogy God Member Offline Posts: 788	Re: Losing decimal places Reply #1 - May 31st, 2010, 1:46pm   show us code. should only take a few lines to illustrate the problem. my feeling is that println is only showing 10 decimal places but the value being stored is longer than that. either that or it's the old integer division problem. double d = 1.0f / 9; println(d); displays 0.1111111119389534

Rapatsk1 Junior Member Offline Posts: 99 www.tiemenrapati.com	Re: Losing decimal places Reply #2 - May 31st, 2010, 2:54pm   They're there. Just use nf() or something like that when printing them. Code: float f = exp(1.0); println(f); println(nf(f, 1, 10));

emporer YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	Re: Losing decimal places Reply #3 - Jun 1st, 2010, 4:46am   Thanks, now it works. Lg emp