Developer Journal 82 - On Boost Serialization

I'm still working on loading a vector of floats. I don't know why it won't work. I had a look at the Boost Numerics Library but I couldn't make sense of it.

I'm now converting the float to a string, reducing the number of decimal points to five or less, and converting back to a float.

Didn't work.

I removed the decimal points and the number after that.

Worked.

I kept the decimal point.

Worked.

I kept the decimal point and one number after that.

Worked.

Trying up to 4 decimal places.

Error.

Up to 3 decimal places.

Error.

Up to 2 decimal places.

Worked.

Strange. So strange.

I placed 0.596109 in every vector position.

Worked.

I'm tracking the min and max values as well as the min and max lengths.

min: 0.100061
max: 0.599588
minLength: 5
maxLength: 8

I placed 0.100061 into every vector position.

Worked.

I placed 0.599588 into every vector position.

Worked.

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minBitProb 0.100000001
maxBitProb 0.600000024

I changed minBitProb and maxBitProb and that resulted in different min and max values.

minBitProb 0.0
maxBitProb 1.0

min: 0.000396741
max: 0.999969
minLength: 5
maxLength: 11

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Strange. Serialization of the vector of floats only works if the genome has a maximum of two decimal points. Has to be enough for now.

Looks like I'm going to have to stick with two decimal points for now.

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