>>>Have you tried shifting the decimal point? You could multiply by 100000 to shift the decimal point left for storing and then when retrieving divide back by 100000 for calculations. The number that you multiply/divide is determined by the number of significant digits that you want to maintain.
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>>That won't change a thing. Double structure has an exponent and a mantissa which keeps 15.95 significant digits. Multiplying or dividing by a power of 10 has no impact on the mantissa, only on the exponent
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>Exponent is binary, i.e. in powers of two, so your 1/10 may actually be 0.999999999... something.

True - what I wanted to say is the multiplying/dividing does not change the number of significant digits