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[Andreas Fabri <>]

On 2/9/2018 8:22 AM, Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory) wrote:
> On 02/09/2018 03:41 AM, williamlai3a wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am a newbie to CGAL, I am trying code from CGAL github master build
> > (v4.12) to do 3D point set processing.
> > I am using the following:

[snip]
> > Problem 1:
> > Seems to me that the output is being trimmed to 6 significant figure.
> > Are there any ways to output much higher significant figure, say 12?
>
> 6 is the default precision of the stream. You can increase the precision
> (the max being 17 if you want to guarantee that a value will be 
> identical to the one wrote when you read it).
>
>
> Try something like:
> std::ofstream output("out.xyz");
> output << std::setprecision(17);

Sébastien,

I suggest that we add that line here:
examples/Point_set_processing_3/read_write_xyz_point_set_example.cpp

Best,

Andreas