Janet,
> My opinion - it would be nice but not essential to have more digits
> available - I have some data which is positions on Jim Kent's UCSC genome
> assemblies, so some of the positions get up to 100,000,000bp kind of sizes.
> big numbers are getting rounded e.g. 135184853 gets turned into 1.35185e+08.
Shouldn't positional information be specified as INT, not FLOAT ?
There is no way that a 32-bit float can give the same accuracy as a 32-bit int.
What does your model say for storing positions ?
cheers Ed
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