bull_a 44 Posted August 20, 2016 Hi all, as it's already known, large numbers in Arma use scientific notation, I believe this happens when the numeric becomes longer than 7 digits. I am trying to output a numeric to screen which has a length of 11 digits. The number is 12345678912 Twelve billion, three hundred and forty-five million, six hundred and seventy-eight thousand, nine hundred and twelve 12,345,678,912 1.23457e+010 So storing the variable is not a problem, the database has been setup to accept integers with a length of 20, however, the problems start to arise when attempting to convert to a string and when attempting to compare and contrast similar numbers (i.e. are extremely close together). An example of this can be seen below _bool = 12345678912 < 12345678913; // _bool is returned as false This is a problem with rounding when using scientific notation and unfortunately this cannot be worked around (as far as I know). Does anyone have a solution or a link to some documentation I could look at? Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Bull Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
davidoss 552 Posted August 20, 2016 limited to 6 digits Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Greenfist 1863 Posted August 20, 2016 Would this help? http://killzonekid.com/arma-scripting-tutorials-arithmetic-library/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bull_a 44 Posted August 20, 2016 Thanks Greenfist, this was one of the ways we investigate! Seems that, as always, this is going to be more hassle than it's worth :) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
R3vo 2654 Posted August 20, 2016 On 8/20/2016 at 1:13 PM, bull_a said: Thanks Greenfist, this was one of the ways we investigate! Seems that, as always, this is going to be more hassle than it's worth :) Arma in a nutshell... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
killzone_kid 1333 Posted August 21, 2016 all explained here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-precision_floating-point_format Share this post Link to post Share on other sites