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Re: BUG! Erratic for loop behavior

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Mar 23, 2002
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off the top of my head:
change the vars to sequence, check for '.', count how many to right of '.',
multiply by 10 to the how many for the MAX number in any var?

Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Bensler" <bensler at mail.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: BUG! Erratic for loop behavior


>
> for i = var1 to var 2 by var3 do
> end for
>
> how much should the vars be multiplied by?
>
> Chris
>
> Dan Moyer wrote:
> > Andy,
> >
> > Although I assume this is at least obvious, you could just do this:
> >
> > for i = 10*31.1 to 10*34.2  do
> >   ?i/10
> > end for
> >
> > Same for whatever max "level" of floating point you have, ie, if *any*
> > value
> > goes out to .001,multiply all by 1000, then divide, etc.
> >
> > Maybe there's some good reason that doesn't occur to me offhand why this
> > won't work?
> >
> > Dan Moyer
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andy Serpa" <renegade at earthling.net>
> > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 11:19 AM
> > Subject: BUG! Erratic for loop behavior
> >
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >
> > > The output of this loop:
> > > ------------------------------
> > > for i = 9.4 to 10.0 by .1 do
> > >   ? i
> > > end for
> > > ------------------------------
> > > stops at 10, as expected.
> > >
> > >
> > > The output of this loop:
> > > ------------------------------
> > > for i = 31.1 to 34.2 by .1 do
> > >   ? i
> > > end for
> > > ------------------------------
> > > stops at 34.1 (!), NOT as expected.
> > >
> > >
> > > The output of this loop:
> > > ------------------------------
> > > for i = 131.1 to 134.2 by .1 do
> > >   ? i
> > > end for
> > > ------------------------------
> > > stops at 134.2, as expected.
> > >
> > >
> > > The output of this loop:
> > > ------------------------------
> > > for i = 60.0 to 64.5 by .1 do
> > >   ? i
> > > end for
> > > ------------------------------
> > > stops at 64.4, NOT as expected.
> > >
> > >
> > > I've verified this on exw.exe & ex.exe, as well as translated to C.
It
> > > looks like an outright bug to me.
> > >
> >
>
>
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