Hi.......
Quote:
Single.MaxValue = 340282300000000000000000000000000000000.00
When trying to parse a value like 99999999 to single, it gives me 1.0E+8 (100000000.00). This is not i was expecting and ofcourse no one would.....How to resolve this type of problem. I cannot (now) go for double coz its already late. I even tried Convert.ToSingle and Ctype way but all yielded the same result .
Please help me out of this...
Single.Parse(999999999) = 1.0E+8 (100000000.00) ???
Visions.net
It has to do with the precision of doubles and singles:
Dim i As Integer = 999999999 Dim sngl As Single = Single.Parse(i) Dim dbl As Double = Double.Parse(i) Debug.Print(i) Debug.Print(sngl) Debug.Print(dbl)Results
999999999
1E+09
999999999
What are you actually trying to accomplish
Kingsonal
Unfortunately there is no good way out of this. While Single's have a big range of numbers they can represent, they cannot represent every number in that range. In many ways Single's are an approximation of a number.
If you want 100% accuracy you're going to have to use the Decimal type.
Bill Reiss
Hai DMan1,
I was testing my application with huge values and one such value is 999999999. After updating, i saw the result which i was not expecting. So if anyone has come over this issue and resolved, then please let us know.
Regards,