Heat_Index calculation in my C program; question about formula

[Keith Thompson]

Re: Heat_Index calculation in my C program; question about formula

David Thompson <dave.thompson2 @verizon.netwri tes:

On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:56:48 +0000, Richard Heathfield
<rjh@see.sig.in validwrote:
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>David Thompson said:
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On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:42:52 +0000, Richard Heathfield
<rjh@see.sig.in validwrote:

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>[scientific notation]
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>No, that's fine - it's just a way of expressing numbers in a consistent
>format. The idea is that any (real) number that can be expressed in a
>finite number of decimals can also be expressed in this way:
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Not just finite but small,

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>I had no idea there was an upper limit. What is that limit?
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Sorry, I misthought that. The number of placeholder zeroes can indeed
be large (but finite); the number of _signficant_ digits is small.

I think Richard's point is that though there are limits for C
implementations , there is no upper limit *in mathematics* for
scientific notation.

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