I'm trying to craft an appropriately worded error message for an application I'm working on.
It boils down to when a calculated value results in having too many decimal places it can't be correctly calculated by the application.
My initial thought for an error message would be something like
Decimal too large to be calculated accurately.
I'm trying to convey the too large to mean a fraction with to many decimal places. But obviously to large means something else. What would the correct term be?
For a more literal example; when 0.0017985611510791366 is used in the program it throws an error. When 0.002 is used it doesn't.
Best Answer
How about
?
Of course that would imply you're using some arbitrary precision level in your application. If you have questions about the language you're using and the level of precision, perhaps try StackOverflow?
A few of @Rupe's suggestions were good too.