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JBurk94
JBurk94

Reputation: 115

Unsigned long long int to long double

In the C programming language I'm having trouble getting accurate values reported for long double variables.

In order to calculate accurate averages of two unsigned long long variables I feel as though I need to use long double over standard double because standard double only handles 52 significant bits while the unsigned long long are 64 bits.

Here is an example of the problem I am experiencing:

unsigned long long int x = 0x00000000FE5F06AC;
unsigned long long int y = 0x000FFFFFFFFFFFFF;
long double z = (x+y)/2.0;
printf("z = %lf", z);

Such a sample of code will always print 0.0000 for z and I can't really understand why this is happening.

Is there underflow occurring, or some type of error in how I am formatting this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 980

Answers (1)

R Sahu
R Sahu

Reputation: 206557

I see couple of errors:

  1. You have a G in the first number. Hopefully that's just a typo or error in transcription.

  2. The format for long double is %Lf, not %lf.

Here's a link to a working example: http://ideone.com/jWRHit

Upvotes: 2

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