Thank you Christopher. :)
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 19:13, Christopher Wright <
[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am dealing with high digit number. 1e +10 and I cannot operate a module
> % after this high number.
> > Is this 100.000.000 the highest number for module?
>
> The modulo operator as implemented in the Mathematical Expression patch
> casts the numbers (normally doubles) to 32 bit signed integers. Because of
> that, you'll not be able to use numbers larger than ~2,147,483,647 (2^31-1)
> for the modulo operation.
>
> Also note that you're adding small values (patch time) to gigantic values.
> Floating point numbers don't handle that sort of thing particularly well in
> general: often the smaller number simply disappears, or experiences odd
> rounding/truncation.
>
> For example:
>
> [this is javascript]
> > function (__number outputNumber) main (__number inputNumber[2])
> > {
> > var result = new Object();
> > var i = 0;
> > result.outputNumber = inputNumber[0];
> > for(i=0;i<10000000;++i)
> > result.outputNumber += + inputNumber[1];
> > return result;
> > }
>
> if you set the inputs to 1e10 and 0.1 respectively, you'd expect to get
> 10001000000 (1e10 + 10000000 * 0.1), but you actually get
> 10001000003.8147....
>
> that bottom cruft is due to floating point math being inexact. This
> example exaggerates its effect by repeatedly adding (instead of multiplying
> and then adding), but it's something one must absolutely be aware of when
> mixing very large and very small numbers.
>
> --
> Christopher Wright
> [email protected]
>
>
>
>
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