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Bugs with literal double-precision floating-point number
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Visual FoxPro
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>To put some perspective on your 15 significant digit values, by the time you can measure the current wind speed at Marostica in km/hr accurate to the nearest 10 picometers/picosecond 32 bit CPUs will be long out of vogue and we'll be using at least 64 bit CPUs and 128bit floating point numbers.

Sorry to but in, Dave, but isn't a picometer per picosecond the same as a meter per second?

Mike
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