On Sunday, March 31, 2002, at 02:10 PM, Ian Summerfield wrote:
> The problem is completely avoided. In general no. In the special case of mod 550, maybe. Consider this. Reach back to when you were 14 and learned floating point. Suppose variable adjustment is a power of 2. Then only the exponent component of the floating point value will change. All arithmetic will be the same except for an offset in the exponent. Add 1 to a large number and you will see you still have the problem. > I first came across this sort of problem in AppleSoft Basic on my > Apple II, Apple II? The program Savvy on the Apple IIe didn't have this problem. > Revolution distances you > from the low level world, well that's what I thought it was > designed to do, > so you forget these things. I think it would be nice if it would distance you until until you really need the low level (as in file, TCP or serial I/O in some cases); then it should give you the low-level tools. Dar Scott _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution