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    RE: Incorrect result —Ralph Hempel
   <snipped code> (...) Robert, this is a classic problem with ranges of singed numbers in C rx = (long)(a->magnitude * TA_costable[a->direction]) >> 7; I don't have an RCX in frot of me, but I think you need to cast a->magnitude to long before the (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
   
        Re: Incorrect result —Robert Templeton
   (...) Yes, this is what happens when one is used to just making everything long and not considering overflows. Even worse was that I was doing the math on the computer's calculator, but not looking at the intermediate result, just typing in the (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
 

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