Thread: value will not fit in type!!

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    value will not fit in type!!

    I need to put -3.402823e38 into a 2d 32bit float safearray, however vc7 converts this value to -3.402821e38 when I try to assign this value to a float??

    WHY??

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    Because it stores numbers as a binary decimal, not every number can necessarily be stored with perfect precision in that form.
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    You may want to use double, which is much more precise, because it uses 8bytes instead of 4.
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