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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 04:30:13 +0000
From: Samisa Abeysinghe <samisa.abeysinghe@gmail.com>
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To: Apache AXIS C Developers List <axis-c-dev@ws.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Number of decimal places in float (and decimal, double)
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OK, I found a solution to go beyond the 4 decimal place limit.

However, there still would be some element of error involved (but very
small, about
0.0000000000001) I think this is acceptable.

Samisa...


On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 01:32:25 +0000, Samisa Abeysinghe
<samisa.abeysinghe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sanjiva, the standard functions (e.g. sprintf, strtod, etc.) that we
> are using in serialization/deserialization does not seem to retain
> precision the way we want. There are some work-arounds but does not
> work exctly the way we want them to.
> 
> John, yes I will have a look at XSD spec. I think that is the best
> thing to do in order to find out what we sould be supporting.
> 
> Thanks,
> Samisa...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 21:57:36 +0600, Sanjiva Weerawarana
> <sanjiva@opensource.lk> wrote:
> > Yes I agree.
> >
> > Samisa, why wouldn't we retain all the precision that's available?
> > Maybe I don't understand the issue (entirely possible!).
> >
> > Sanjiva.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Hawkins" <HAWKINSJ@uk.ibm.com>
> > To: "Apache AXIS C Developers List" <axis-c-dev@ws.apache.org>
> > Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 7:01 PM
> > Subject: Re: Number of decimal places in float (and decimal, double)
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > This is a huge area that I can't see we've discussed before?
> > >
> > > To my logic we should be looking at the attributes on the types for their
> > > description of what they are expecting shouldn't we ?
> > >
> > >
> > > John Hawkins
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > >              Samisa Abeysinghe
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> > >              Please respond to                                     Subject
> > >               "Apache AXIS C           Number of decimal places in float
> > >              Developers List"          (and decimal, double)
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Folks,
> > >    As per http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/browse/AXISCPP-320, are we
> > > happy with a 4 decimal place acuracy, or do we need more decimal
> > > places be represented correctly?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Samisa...
> > >
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