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bug #61940: Numbers with many decimals incorrectly been read as float32

Submitter:  Mohammad Akhlaghi <makhlaghi>
Submitted:  Wed 26 Jan 2022 11:11:37 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Libraries Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  Output not reasonable Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  makhlaghi
Open/Closed:  Closed

Wed 26 Jan 2022 11:28:34 PM UTC, comment #1: 

This bug has been fixed in Commit 9f1c1542cb.

Mohammad Akhlaghi <makhlaghi>
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Wed 26 Jan 2022 11:11:37 PM UTC, original submission:  

When a many-digit "small" number (like '330624.3918430004') is given to 'gal_type_string_to_number', it is mistakenly read as a 32-bit float number, not 64-bit.

This causes problems like the example below (when reading FITS keywords that have values in a similar format). This 'img.fits' can be any of the images that is initially downloaded in the general tutorial:


$ astfits img.fits -h0 --keyvalue=TEXPTIME
img.fits 330624

$ astfits img.fits -h0 | grep TEXPTIME
TEXPTIME=    330624.3918430004


As you see, while the value is '330624.3918430004', the Fits program only prints the first 6 characters! The root cause of this problem is that 'gal_type_string_to_number' is wrongly identifying this as a 32-bit floating point number.

This bug was first reported by Zohre Ghaffari and Pedram Ashofteh Ardakani helped in finding the solution.

Mohammad Akhlaghi <makhlaghi>
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