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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Valfloat("92.14") = 92.139999?

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blink0k
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Posted: 21st Jan 2018 00:03
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Is this just par for the course as far as floats are concerned or is it an issue?
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Markus
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Posted: 21st Jan 2018 00:18 Edited at: 21st Jan 2018 00:28
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its about how floats are saved in memory. other languages have decimal or currency data type.
print(str(ValFloat("92.14"),2))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-precision_floating-point_format
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Posted: 21st Jan 2018 02:26
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Neat! I didn't know you could do with with str()
Thanks for the link too
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I SO wish we had a high accuracy maths lib for AGK. Lots of niche calculator apps we could make.
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Here is a little in-depth information on floats and precision.

http://www.learncpp.com/cpp-tutorial/25-floating-point-numbers/
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A few days ago, a company claims to have solved floating point precision for processors, in case anyone was curious.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/18/01/21/0157230/has-the-decades-old-floating-point-error-problem-been-solved
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