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Re: 19990408: storing and retrieving exact floating-point value

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  • Subject: Re: 19990408: storing and retrieving exact floating-point value
  • Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 15:46:03 -0600
Harry,

>Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 17:36:59 -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:

> > What's the type of the netCDF variable that's getting the 1e35 value?
> 
> NetCDF::FLOAT

Hmm...  What happens if you make the variable NetCDF::DOUBLE?

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