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[Thomas Okken]

(03-12-2017 08:28 AM)Hsilop Wrote:  However, there seems to be plenty room for more digits / decimals in the current XYZT. This could provide higher resolution for real numbers, and "normal" resolution for the real and imaginary parts of complex numbers.

Would this be something that is easy to accomodate now or in an early update?

Changing the number-to-text conversion code to show more than the 12 digits it currently shows is trickier than you might expect, but it should be done anyway, even if for no other reason than to allow SHOW to show the full 34-digit mantissa (or 16 digits in Free42 Binary). Once that change is in place, the functionality Hsilop suggests would be quite easy to implement.

UPDATE: For the adventurous, I attached a preliminary patch that makes SHOW display full precision for real numbers.
The obvious next step is to support full precision everywhere: FIX 33, number entry with up to 34 digits, etc. That may take a bit more time. :-)