jaycy1984

im building an experiment project based on the solar system which concerns how many seconds in a day for each planet

on earth theres 86,162.4 seconds in a day, when i try and put this number in a message box or as a flo num, its defaults tp 86,162.398438 instead of having the 4 at the end

numbers-changing-in-messages-and-flo-num

This has to do with basic floating point precision. There are lots of threads about it. You can limit the precision of any number boxes to one digit, and that might get you closer too where you want to be.

what exactly do i do, this number needs to be exact, why does it struggle?

It "struggles" because of the limits of 32-bit floating point numbers. There is a fair amount of discussion about this in general (not Max related) 

Here's a page talking about it in the context of Microsoft Excell

It "struggles" because of the limits of 32-bit floating point numbers. There is a fair amount of discussion about this in general (not Max related) Here's a page talking about it in the context of Microsoft Excell

numbers changing, in messages and flo num