Thread: Simple calculation not working, need help

Originally Posted by Summonerur

Wow! Thanks for the help, I know everything I need to know now.



Do you actually enjoy sitting here bashing on people who are trying to learn things? I have been looking at previous threads to maybe learn some things off of other peoples questions and I noticed all you do is post sarcastic comments that have absolutely no educational value.

I am sorry if we are not all as smart as you are or fortunate enough to have had or have professors who know what they are teaching. /bow

Originally Posted by Dave_Sinkula

Could you post an expected input and output to demonstrate exactly what you mean?

>yeah, something like that.
Uh, no. Not "something like that".

Originally Posted by Dave_Sinkula

Could you post an expected input and output to demonstrate exactly what you mean?

Originally Posted by Summonerur

Wow! Thanks for the help, I know everything I need to know now.

That is everything you need to know about floating point numbers. There is no rhyme or reason to why they round they do. They just do. If they run across something they can't represent, it rounds it. You as the programmer have absolutely no way of easily telling when it's going to round. It just does.

As I stated: "Welcome to the world of floating point numbers." If you don't want rounding, don't use floating point numbers. Period.

Trust me, you'll know when you're being "bashed" by me.

Quzah.

Well if you really want everything, then read this
http://cch.loria.fr/documentation/IE...M/goldberg.pdf

Originally Posted by Summonerur

input:
A: 32
B: 34

Expected output: 46.69047012
given output: 46.6905

Just wondering how to stop it from rounding

There is a default precision for "%f". If you want a different precision, just specify it.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>

int main(void)
{
   double a = 32, b = 34, c = sqrt(a * a + b * b);
   printf("c = %f\n", c);
   printf("c = %.8f\n", c);
   return 0;
}

/* my output
c = 46.690470
c = 46.69047012
*/

Originally Posted by Summonerur

Wow! Thanks for the help, I know everything I need to know now.



Do you actually enjoy sitting here bashing on people who are trying to learn things? I have been looking at previous threads to maybe learn some things off of other peoples questions and I noticed all you do is post sarcastic comments that have absolutely no educational value.

I am sorry if we are not all as smart as you are or fortunate enough to have had or have professors who know what they are teaching. /bow

Well, I suppose from your viewpoint it might seem like Quzah was not trying to be helpful, but if you had taken the initiative and actually thought about the answer he gave you (as opposed to moaning about what a mean and nasty guy he is) you might have come up with the novel idea of looking up some floating point resources for yourself.

From the viewpoint of the regulars on this board, you are just another student in a long list of students who come here for a short time and are gone for good. Every year a new batch pops up wanting to get all kinds of good information, in the easiest fashion possible. Well hey, this board is to help people get good info, and yeah it is free, so you can't really complain if you don't like what you get. But here is the kicker - how many times do you think some of the members on the board, like Quzah or Salem or any of the others with 3000+ posts have seen a question like, 'Gee, this floating point stuff is whacked!' ? Believe me, they have seen it many times. And as the answer is not generally a short one (as evidenced by some of the documentation referred to previously and in this post) it is somewhat easier to just give a bit of hint (like Quzah did) which ought to be enough to prompt someone like you to do some looking instead of sitting there like a baby bird with its neck stretched out and its beak open waiting for mommy bird to vomit up some worms or whatever.

That said, here are a couple of other things with regards to your question, should you wish to take the time to look through the material.

http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncgTOC.html

http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/s14.html

This next one might be a little helpful too:

http://stevehollasch.com/cgindex/coding/ieeefloat.html

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