Floating Point Calculation Problem

[Guest]

Hello,

In an application that worked fine until recently I have started to have
problems with calculations involving two doubles. For example: -24.708 +
26.0 = 1.2920000000000016, however, -24.708 + 8.0 = -16.708. What would
cause this? I don't think the numbers are so large that it would be the
usual floating point calculation error because of rounding. How can I fix
it? I'd rather not change every calcuation in my program to include a
math.round...

..Net Framework 1.1 version 1.1.4322 SP1
Visual Basic - Visual Studio .Net 2003
Windows XP

Thanks,

 

[Chris Saunders]

The size of your numbers are not relevant to this issue.
Here is an URL with an article you should probably read if you wish to
better
understand this issue: http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html

I know nothing about your application but you may indeed need something
along the lines you suggested.

Regards
Chris Saunders

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

In an application that worked fine until recently I have started to have
problems with calculations involving two doubles. For example: -24.708 +
26.0 = 1.2920000000000016, however, -24.708 + 8.0 = -16.708. What would
cause this? I don't think the numbers are so large that it would be the
usual floating point calculation error because of rounding. How can I fix
it? I'd rather not change every calcuation in my program to include a
math.round...

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/floatingpoint.html

 

[Nick Malik [Microsoft]]

Hello,

In an application that worked fine until recently I have started to have
problems with calculations involving two doubles. For example: -24.708 +
26.0 = 1.2920000000000016, however, -24.708 + 8.0 = -16.708. What would
cause this?

I don't see a problem here. Why do you?

I don't think the numbers are so large that it would be the
usual floating point calculation error because of rounding.

Who said size has anything at all to do with this calculation? Rounding
doesn't just happen for very large numbers. It happens for all of them.

How can I fix
it?

Decimal datatype