I think the answer is “Yes”, but I thought it was worth asking this question. Perhaps the answer is “No” or “It doesn’t matter”; in which case, I’ll have learned something about dynamic mapping, and I can save bytes by omitting the trailing .0. I am a member of the development team for a product th…

Should I set the zero value of a floating-point field to 0.0 rather than 0, to help dynamic detection?

system (system) Closed April 25, 2017, 4:24am 3

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