[futurebasic] Re: [FB] a curiosity with containers

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From: David Cottrell <David.Cottrell@...>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:10:27 +1000
>Re following, I believe that containers when doing numerical stuff are still
>limited to the usual numerical precision. So you have simply exceeded the
>maximum number, hence the result "infinity". There was loose talk at some
>stage of being able to set the number of numerical digits to any arbitrary
>number, but I don't think it was done (I don't think PPC math or SANE math
>allows it).
>
>Robin

I think Robin is correct. What is interesting is that this might be possible in FB2, since BNC math allows far greater precision (at the expense of speed).

David