Hello! Given the following code: char latit[10] = {"4041.2358"}; //Degrees = 40, Minutes = 41, Seconds = 23.58 Serial.print("latit = "); Serial.println(latit); float flatit = atof(latit); Serial.print("flatit = "); Serial.println(flatit, 6); flatit /= 100.00; Serial.print("flatit = "); Serial.pr…

Floating point math issues....last significant digit not what I expected

robtillaart January 20, 2013, 5:08pm 6

That's the nature of floating point math.

And we haven't even discussed error propagation due to math operators

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