Accuracy

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I am using the free pascal compiler ppc386 v 1.0.6 of the SuSE-Linux
distribution 8.2.
The problem is, that if a programm calculates the machine epsilon, the answer
is e.g.:
5.4210108624275222E-0020
which shows that only 17 significant numbers are shown though the exponent
shows, that there should be a representation with 20 significant numbers.

udo

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2 20th February 07:26 udo stenger External User Posts: 1	Accuracy I am using the free pascal compiler ppc386 v 1.0.6 of the SuSE-Linux distribution 8.2. The problem is, that if a programm calculates the machine epsilon, the answer is e.g.: 5.4210108624275222E-0020 which shows that only 17 significant numbers are shown though the exponent shows, that there should be a representation with 20 significant numbers. udo