Re: a bug and a question

Hi Ingo

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Ingo Thon <ingo.thon@...> wrote:
> If I do
> :-X is 1/100000000000000000000000000000000000,format('~400f ~n',[X]).
> Yap crashes.
> with
> *** stack smashing detected ***: /home/ingo/yap-cvs/yap terminated
>

Yes, the problem was the 400, I had at most 256 bytes. What you did
crashed the stack. I commited a patch for that in yap-6.

> That leads also to my question how can I ouput a number withall
> significant ditgits?
>

I am not sure you can, because floating point numbers are base 2, and
you are trying to output in base 10. The only way to make sure you
didn't lose precision would be converting it to an integer.

> Ingo
>

Sorry for the delay,

Cheers

Vitor

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