Clarification on double/float from Ashok Malhotra on 2002-11-27 (xmlschema-dev@w3.org from November 2002)

From: Ashok Malhotra <ashokma@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 06:44:00 -0800
To: "peiyongz@ca.ibm.com" <'peiyongz@ca.ibm.com'>
Cc: <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Message-ID: <E5B814702B65CB4DA51644580E4853FB03E9FF45@red-msg-12.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

This is in response to your note:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xmlschema-dev/2002Nov/0131.html

The XML Schema datatypes double and float follow the IEEE 754 float and
double.  Thus, they cover the
same range of values.  There is a forthcoming erratum which will clarify
this. 

All the best, Ashok

Received on Wednesday, 27 November 2002 09:44:33 UTC