Sollya User's Manual

Name:

printdouble prints a constant value as a hexadecimal double precision number

Usage:

printdouble(constant) : constant -> void

Parameters:

constant represents a constant

Description:

Prints a constant value as a hexadecimal number on 16 hexadecimal digits. The hexadecimal number represents the integer equivalent to the 64 bit memory representation of the constant considered as a double precision number.

If the constant value does not hold on a double precision number, it is first rounded to the nearest double precision number before displayed. A warning is displayed in this case.

Example 1:

> printdouble(3);
0x4008000000000000

Example 2:

   > prec=100!;
   > verbosity = 1!;
   > printdouble(exp(5));
   Warning: the given expression is not a constant but an expression to evaluate. A faithful evaluation will be used.
   Warning: rounding down occurred before printing a value as a double.
   0x40628d389970338f

See also: printsingle, printexpansion, double