[CLN-list] floating point error

Richard B. Kreckel kreckel at ginac.de
Tue Jul 12 00:04:10 CEST 2005


On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Elvis Dieguez wrote:
[...]
>  I've looked at the cln documentation and it appears
>
>  |float_format_t default_float_format|
>
>      Global variable: the default float format used when converting
>      rational numbers to floats.
>
>
>  there is a way but I do not quite understand how one might change the
>  default precision.

Try a simple assignment statement in your code:

    default_float_format = float_format_t(1000);

Regards
  -richy.
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Richard B. Kreckel
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