[TUSCANY-2439] Float / double loss of precision

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: C++ SDO
• Assignee: Adriano Crestani
• Reporter: Caroline Maynard
• Created: 24/Jun/08 21:13
• Updated: 17/Jan/10 23:02
• Resolved: 24/Jun/08 23:16

Description

When Tuscany converts floats or doubles to strings, in particular when it writes them to an XML document, there is serious loss of precision.

This is because Tuscany uses a format string of %.3e or %.3Le, meaning it will use a maximum of three digits after the decimal point.