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You have to coerce the int to a float, e.g:
int i= 7;
float j= 3.;
float result;
result = j * (float)i;
The above should work. Please let me know if not.
Fred
On Monday, February 25, 2002, at 11:26 AM, Brendan O'Hare wrote:
> (Perhaps this isn't the right place to ask questions about I.C.
> but it is
> related to the handy board so I will continue)
> I am trying to write a program that uses the lego sensors and
> multiplies
> them by constants that are floats. The expansion board returns
> integers for
> the lego sensors so I have a problem there as multiplying floats
> and ints
> isn't permitted by I.C. as far as I can make out. (the program
> returns an
> error saying that <float> * <int> isnt permitted)
> Also when I calculate these values I want to use them to determine
> how long
> to leave motors on. I am turning the motors on full, leaving them
> on using
> the mseconds() function and then turning the motors off - again
> using the
> mseconds() function in order to create an exact force on my model. This
> function requires long ints so I must convert my answers from
> above which
> are floats into long ints. Again my problem is that as far as I can see
> there is no way of converting between these different variables.
> Any ideas from anyone?
> Thanks,Brendan
>
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