Richard Wesley wrote:

> Helen -
>
> On 25 Oct 2007, at 16:57, Helen Borrie wrote:
>
>
>>> Is this caused by floating point representation issues?
>>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>
>>> And would this affect integer representations?
>>>
>> No.
>>
>
> I think I didn't ask this very clearly, so I'm going to rephrase just
> to make sure I have the right answer to the right question ;-)
>
> Does this affect floating point representations of integer values?
>
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If it's a *very* big value yes. At some point a float value will jump
form 8 to 8 then 16 to 16 and so on.

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