Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a long ...

ARGH! this is making me fscking crazy, it's so goddamned simple! how do you do it?<P>you can use round() or trunc() to go the other way, but I can't find any way to go from integer -> real<P>I've ...

Once the domain of esoteric scientific and business computing, floating point calculations are now practically everywhere. From video games to large language models and kin, it would seem that a ...