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Re: RbScript - careful with Doubles

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Subject: Re: RbScript - careful with Doubles
From: CV <atauqua at hit dot net>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:01:27 -0700
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On Sep 29, 2005, at 9:54 PM, Bob Delaney wrote:

At 2:29 PM +0200 9/29/05, Thomas Tempelmann wrote:
RbScript still does not support Doubles, i.e. 64 bit floating point!
All it supports is the Single data type. Inside RbScript, wherever
you write "Double" it becomes a "Single" automatically.


I saw this posting about RBScript and doubles, but haven't had time to read the followups. So maybe this has all been settled. RB 2005 Release 3 does indeed not handle doubles properly. Here is a simple RB project to show this:

Yes, I can duplicate your results exactly. Interestingly, the results are the same for Rb4.5.3, Rb5.5.5, and Rb2005r2.

Jack

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