Thread: add 2 largest possible double numbers

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    Question add 2 largest possible double numbers

    hi,

    lets suppose, i declare the following

    long double a,b,c;

    a=1.1 E 4932; // this is the max possible range for long double
    b=1.1 E 4932; // this is the max possible range for long double

    c=a+b; // here there would be an overflow

    now how do i add a and b is my question and display their result. hope i could make myself clear. thanks.

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    I dont believe this is possible using the data types you are using. Look in yoru compilers documentation on 64bit floating point values. I think some compilers allow you to do long double or double double.
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    I had done a similar problem a few weeks ago. There are two solutions.

    1) read all the data to a file and then read from the file and do the processing.

    2) dynamically increase the size of the memory in which u r storing the numbers. (Read the numbers as char)
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    There are some other threads on doing calculation with huge numbers or numbers with very high precision on this board. I suggest you do a search first and take a look at those threads.

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