RE: Getting equivalent 'double' parsing in c++ and fortran?

["Convey, Christian J CIV NUWC NWPT" <christian dot convey at navy dot mil>]

> Both represent the same binary number.  You can simply verify 
> this by doing something like
>    double x, y;
>    sscanf("2.70000000000000017762568294", "%f", &x);
>    sscanf("2.70000000000000017762570000", "%f", &y);
>    printf("%80.70f\n", x - y);

Good point.  I just did a similar experiment.

I took the high-precision formatted output from when fortran parsed and printed "2.7" as a double precision number.  I supplied that printed output to my C++ program, which parsed it as a double.  The bit pattern of the resulting C++ variable was exactly the same as the bit pattern produced by having the C++ code parse "2.7".

Thanks for all the help.

- Christian

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