Thread: Floating point numbers

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    Question Floating point numbers

    How can i add very large floating point numbers which may be the largest my machine can handle. i.e x+y=z

    where x and y are very large floating point numbers(which a machine can support)



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    This was asked a few days ago and all the possible soultoints were disccused use the search button before posting. Here are two threads you can look at: http://www.cprogramming.com/cboard/s...=large+numbers and http://www.cprogramming.com/cboard/s...=large+numbers . I searched for Large Numbers.
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    One way I did for a similar program (for 1000 factorial) was....


    I used character arrays (of a finite length) and always arranged the results of multiplications (additions in ur case) into the array and then re-multiplied it with what ever I have to...

    Try out the solution...n tell me if u have some problem. I wrote the program long ago and I dont have the code right now...

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