<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 5, 2016, at 11:36 AM, Lars-Jørgen Kristiansen <<a href="mailto:larsjk.84@gmail.com" class="">larsjk.84@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Alegreya-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">And thought that i would receive a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i class="" style="font-family: Alegreya-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">overflows when stored into 'Float'<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Alegreya-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">error...?</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">It doesn’t overflow. (I think the maximum value of Float is around 1e37.) There just isn’t enough precision to represent it exactly, which is pretty common; the usual example is that 0.1 can’t be represented exactly by any size binary floating-point.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Jens</div></body></html>