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Re: 19990409: storing and retrieving exact floating-point value

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  • Subject: Re: 19990409: storing and retrieving exact floating-point value
  • Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 08:23:48 -0600
Harry,

>Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 08:38:44 -0400
>From: Harry Jenter <address@hidden>
>Organization: U.S.G.S.
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 19990408: storing and retrieving exact floating-point value
>Keywords: 199904082039.OAA25794

In the above message, you wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> It works! Thanks.  NetCDF::DOUBLE was the key.  
> 
> -Harry

Great!

perl must store the 1e35 as a double: when it was converted to a
NetCDF::FLOAT, truncation caused the problem.

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Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>