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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - ImpSvNumberInputScan::StringToDouble may produce inaccurate result"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130725#c22">Comment # 22</a>
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title="NEW - ImpSvNumberInputScan::StringToDouble may produce inaccurate result"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130725">bug 130725</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:mikekaganski@hotmail.com" title="Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski@hotmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Mike Kaganski</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Jonny Grant from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=130725#c21">comment #21</a>)
<span class="quote">> Just accurate decimal precision, up to 8 would be ideal for most accountants etc
> we work with. If coded in a soft decimal lib, that's only 27 bits, but I
> appreciate, you'd have to code this in software, as compilers just generate
> code for double precision.</span >
Oh.
LibreOffice uses IEEE 754 double precision, which has 53 bits mantissa, and so
no less than 15 decimal digits precision. That is much higher than 8 decimal
digits that that you look for. You seem to not understand the precision, those
...99999... confusing you.</pre>
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