Re: [xml] Getting crazy with float parsing

[Anthony Jones <amj30 cam ac uk>]

On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 11:15:58AM -0700, Aleksey Sanin wrote:
> This is the link that describes it
>
> http://www.math.grin.edu/~stone/courses/fundamentals/IEEE-reals.html

Unless you change the representation of the number to something other than
a double, I don't think there's any way around the problem other than
making sure the value is never output to enough significant figures to
expose the problem...

Anthony