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Re: Strange problem

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Mar 19, 2000
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On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Rett Williams wrote:
>
> Neither WIDTH nor HEIGHT are either integers or atoms, but floats because
> they are declared with a decimal. I am not sure what that means for their
> use as atoms in the function Get(), but it can't be nice. In this particular
> case,
> it doesn't matter, because (att-floor(att)) will always be 0 if att has
> already
> been rounded to an integer by being stuffed into an atom. I think that is
> your problem.

Bzzzt! An atom _is_ a float. Storing something there does not round it in any
way. This is easily proven by either
1. writing a program:

constant n = 4.1
atom a
a = n
? a

prints 4.1

Or, 2, consulting the manual:

"Atoms can have any integer or double-precision floating point value.
They can range from approximately -1e300 (minus one times 10 to the power 300)
to +1e300 with 15 decimal digits of accuracy."

Regards,
Irv