Re: Weird?!?!
| From: | Stefan Esser | Date: | Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:30:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Weird?!?! | ||
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 07:24:05PM +0200, derick@php.net wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Stefan Esser wrote:
>
> > should that be replaced with:
> >
> > result->value.lval = (long)dval;
> >
> > instead of calculating the multiplication again???
>
> I think this is because of precision and the circumvention of rounding
> errors.
Precision is questionable but rounding errors cannot be. Two integers
multiplied will always have .00 ... Infact i am nearly sure that double
precision is enough...
Stefan