Good day everyone. This sounds like a stupid question, but I became
just curious yesterday, and I looked up several textbooks. However, no
textbooks on computer language (that I have ) mentioned this. So I am
asking to you, gurus...
Is there any particular reason to call 'float' instead of 'real'?
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On Mar 24, 12:13 am, "DirtyHarry " <kim20...@gmail .comwrote:
Good day everyone. This sounds like a stupid question, but I became
just curious yesterday, and I looked up several textbooks. However, no
textbooks on computer language (that I have ) mentioned this. So I am
asking to you, gurus...
Is there any particular reason to call 'float' instead of 'real'?
What you call 'double' - real32?
I'm certainly not well versed in the history of the languages ( I
suspect this dates back to C ) nonetheless, Fortran is the only
language I've encountered that used REAL. Granted, rational,
irrational etc - numbers are approximations of real arithmetic, I
suspect machine precision limitations plays an important role. Beyond
that I'm unsure what the impetus is.
DirtyHarry wrote:
Good day everyone. This sounds like a stupid question, but I became
just curious yesterday, and I looked up several textbooks. However, no
textbooks on computer language (that I have ) mentioned this. So I am
asking to you, gurus...
Is there any particular reason to call 'float' instead of 'real'?
float stands for "floating point" as opposed to "fixed point". It is a
more accurate description than "real" since not all real numbers are
representable by a floating point number.
"DirtyHarry " <ki******@gmail .comwrote in message
news:11******** **************@ e65g2000hsc.goo glegroups.com.. .
Good day everyone. This sounds like a stupid question, but I became
just curious yesterday, and I looked up several textbooks. However, no
textbooks on computer language (that I have ) mentioned this. So I am
asking to you, gurus...
Is there any particular reason to call 'float' instead of 'real'?
So if we call a float a real, does that mean we have to call an int a fake?
float is more descriptive I believe.
DirtyHarry wrote:
Is there any particular reason to call 'float' instead of 'real'?
Because a 'float' is not a real number, but a floating point number.
There's a big difference.
Dnia Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:49:04 -0700, ma740988 napisa³(a):
Fortran is the only language I've encountered that used REAL.
Pascal used it too ;)
And it's probably the language used formerly by OP, causing
his confusion upon encountering 'float' ;J
--
SasQ
Jim Langston wrote:
"DirtyHarry " <ki******@gmail .comwrote in message
news:11******** **************@ e65g2000hsc.goo glegroups.com.. .
>Good day everyone. This sounds like a stupid question, but I became
just curious yesterday, and I looked up several textbooks. However, no
textbooks on computer language (that I have ) mentioned this. So I am
asking to you, gurus...
Is there any particular reason to call 'float' instead of 'real'?
So if we call a float a real, does that mean we have to call an int a
fake?
I guess the OP is talking about the mathematical term as in "real number",
not the opposite of "fake".
float is more descriptive I believe.
Agreed.
DirtyHarry wrote:
Good day everyone. This sounds like a stupid question, but I became
just curious yesterday, and I looked up several textbooks. However, no
textbooks on computer language (that I have ) mentioned this. So I am
asking to you, gurus...
Is there any particular reason to call 'float' instead of 'real'?
Counter question: Is there any particular reason to call it 'real' instead
of 'float'?
DirtyHarry wrote:
Good day everyone. This sounds like a stupid question, but I became
just curious yesterday, and I looked up several textbooks. However, no
textbooks on computer language (that I have ) mentioned this. So I am
asking to you, gurus...
Is there any particular reason to call 'float' instead of 'real'?
float is short for "floating-point." double is short for
double-precision floating point.
--
-- Pete
Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd. ( www.versatilecoding.com)
Author of "The Standard C++ Library Extensions: a Tutorial and
Reference." ( www.petebecker.com/tr1book)
On Mar 24, 8:43 am, Rolf Magnus <ramag...@t-online.dewrote:
Counter question: Is there any particular reason to call it 'real' instead
of 'float'?
I suspect the OP's thought process reflects what I - perhaps all of us
- was taught in a mathematical sense. In that regard, I'd talk in
terms of integers, real numbers and complex numbers. These are terms
everyone understands including C / C++ programmers. I had a similar
question hen I first encountered 'floats and double'. I'd like to
believe Real32 and Real64 would suffice, but considering C/C++ has
been around for sometime, you chalk it up to 'it is what it is' and
move on.
In the end, the OP could always - worse case - typedef the float/
double to what he/she considers a more meaningful description. That's
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