Re: Converting integer + mantissa to float

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Rob Dixon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jay Savage wrote:
>>
>> You're right, the mantissa may have leading zeros. Good catch. I need
>> to keep them, though, or any later math will be off by multiple powers
>> of ten. I'd completely missed that on the first go-around, but what I
>> really need is
>>
>> $x = sprinf "%u.%s", $int, $mantissa;
>
> I think what you you really need is
>
>  $x = sprintf "%s.%s", $int, $mantissa;
>
> or really
>
>  $x = "$int.$mantissa";
>
> Get over it :)
>
> Rob
>

So it seems.

Thanks again!

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