Questions related to `long double` floating-point data-type (numbers) as commonly found in languages like C and C++. Sometimes referred to as quadruple-precision floating-point data-type (numbers).
Questions tagged [long-double]
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long double vs double
I know that size of various data types can change depending on which system I am on.
I use XP 32bits, and using the sizeof() operator in C++, it seems like long double is 12 bytes, and double is 8.
However, most major sources states that long double…
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printf and long double
I am using the latest gcc with Netbeans on Windows. Why doesn't long double work? Is the printf specifier %lf wrong?
Code:
#include
int main(void)
{
float aboat = 32000.0;
double abet = 5.32e-5;
long double dip = 5.32e-5;
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long double (GCC specific) and __float128
I'm looking for detailed information on long double and __float128 in GCC/x86 (more out of curiosity than because of an actual problem).
Few people will probably ever need these (I've just, for the first time ever, truly needed a double), but I…
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Difference between long double and double in C and C++
Possible Duplicate:
long double vs double
I am new to programming and I am unable to understand the difference between between long double and double in C and C++. I tried to Google it but was unable to understand it and got confused. Can anyone…
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What is the precision of long double in C++?
Does anyone know how to find out the precision of long double on a specific platform? I appear to be losing precision after 17 decimal digits, which is the same as when I just use double. I would expect to get more, since double is represented…
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Why did Microsoft abandon long double data type?
A while ago I wrote a program which used some factorial functions. I used the long double data type to support "relative" big numbers.
Now, I changed from codeblocks to Visualstudio 2010, I was wondering why my program didn't work any more till I…
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Why would you use float over double, or double over long double?
I'm still a beginner at programming and I always have more questions than our book or internet searches can answer (unless I missed something). So I apologize in advance if this was answered but I couldn't find it.
I understand that float has a…
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What are the applications/benefits of an 80-bit extended precision data type?
Yeah, I meant to say 80-bit. That's not a typo...
My experience with floating point variables has always involved 4-byte multiples, like singles (32 bit), doubles (64 bit), and long doubles (which I've seen referred to as either 96-bit or 128-bit).…
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sizeof long double and precision not matching?
Consider the following C code:
#include
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
const long double ld = 0.12345678901234567890123456789012345L;
printf("%lu %.36Lf\n", sizeof(ld), ld);
return 0;
}
Compiled with gcc 4.8.1 under…
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Why are double and long double completely the same on my 64 bit machine?
This question may sound like for beginners, however when I found that out I thought I'm either a beginner or my comp is missing something:
int main()
{
cout << sizeof(double) << endl;
cout << sizeof(long double) << endl;
cout << DBL_DIG…
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Union not reinterpreting values?
Consider this program:
#include
union myUnion
{
int x;
long double y;
};
int main()
{
union myUnion a;
a.x = 5;
a.y = 3.2;
printf("%d\n%.2Lf", a.x, a.y);
return 0;
}
Output:
-858993459
3.20
This is fine, as…
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Convert extended precision float (80-bit) to double (64-bit) in MSVC
What is the most portable and "right" way to do conversion from extended precision float (80-bit value, also known as long double in some compilers) to double (64-bit) in MSVC win32/win64?
MSVC currently (as of 2010) assumes that long double is…
user313885
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Largest integer that can be stored in long double
EDIT: After some discussion in the comments it came out that because of a luck of knowledge in how floating point numbers are implemented in C, I asked something different from what I meant to ask.
I wanted to use (do operations with) integers…
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long double math library implementations?
What are the available portable implementations of the C99 long double math library functions (expl, cosl, logl, etc.), if any? I've looked in fdlibm (Sun-based), NetBSD (UCB-based), etc. sources and not seen them.
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How to get a Python long double literal?
How to get a Python long double literal? I have tried with
numpy.longdouble(1e309)
and
numpy.longdouble("1e309")
but both of them just return inf. What would be the right way to do that?
[EDIT] An answer below says that long double is treated as…
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