[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #32991] format long shows more decimal digits than can possibly be accurate

[Pedro Quaresma]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #32991 (project octave):

I agree with this last comment in one point, but I disagree in another point:

"Users of floating point arithmetic should know the limitations or they
shouldn't be using floating point arithmetic at all"

I agree.

But I do not agree with the solution adopted by Octave. It is not a calculus
bug (I see now that it is not, thank you for all the comments), but, in my
opinion, it is a "display bug", Octave shouldn't display 

octave:3> 322426889*404781269 
 ans = 130512365289142144 

the format long should not display, as integers, numbers that are out of range
for a correct representation, it is misleading.

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