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Re: Arithmatic operation
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Sat, 21 Nov 1998 23:36:31 GMT
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Rick Moll <rickmoll@mvpIHATESPAM.net>
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Javaid Iqbal wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am dividing 4.1 by 4.1 in following manner and getting answer 2.
> instead of 1.
> Dividing 4.2 by 4.2 give 1 result, dividing 4.6 by 4.6 again give 2.
> Except 4.1 and 4.6 rest all numbers give 1 result. I am using IC 3.2. Any
> help in this regards would be appreciated.
I've asked for help with the floating point bugs in IC before, and nobody
seems to care. Unfortunately, I've come to not use IC floating point
variables at all, since I can't trust them. It's all very frustrating since
none of the IC versions support long int division either; which also
seriously cripples the use of IC for precision fixed point calculations.
Later,
Rick
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 | | Re: Arithmatic operation
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| if you are not trying to divide numbers of great precision(many significant figures), then you can try multiplying by some order of 10, performing your division, then dividing by that same order of 10. i have used this before, but not for the same (...) (26 years ago, 22-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Arithmatic operation
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| Hi all, I am dividing 4.1 by 4.1 in following manner and getting answer 2. instead of 1. Dividing 4.2 by 4.2 give 1 result, dividing 4.6 by 4.6 again give 2. Except 4.1 and 4.6 rest all numbers give 1 result. I am using IC 3.2. Any help in this (...) (26 years ago, 20-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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