Any suggestions on calculating with very large or small numbers?
It seems that double values are about 17 decimal places (10e17) in precision.
Is there a way in iPhone calculations to get more precision for very large and small numbers, like 10e80 and so forth? I know that's more than the entire number of atoms in the universe, but still.
I tried "long double" but that didn't seem to make any difference.
Just a limitation?
Thanks,
doug
Hmmm... maybe I was just having a problem with my formatted string then?
I was using the NSString %g format, which is supposed to print in exponential notation if the number is greater than 1e4 or less than 1e-4, or something like that.
But I was not getting anything greater exponents than 1e17 and then I was apparently getting overflows because the number were having negative mantissas.
All the variables involved were double...
How did you "look at" z?
Thanks,
doug
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