OpenEuphoria

RE: BUG! Erratic for loop behavior

• Posted by dm31 at uow.edu.au Mar 24, 2002
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> > for i = 31.4 to 31.5 do... should work perfectly. Or am I just    
been                                                                  
> > dumb?                                                             
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> I wouldn't use the word "dumb". But consider the fraction 1/3. in   
decimal it's                                                          
> 0.3333333333333333-> infinity. How can that be represented in       
binary? It                                                            
> can't. It's only perfectly accurate in base3 or integer multiples of
3. I think i                                                          
> remember an experimental computer that used 3 voltage levels per    
bit, but it                                                           
> was slow and buggy, and that's all i remember of it. Back in the    
8087@1mhz                                                             
                                                                      
Yeh I've heard of the trinary computer too, But trinary is still used.
Alot of cmos chips involved in security systems use trinary encoders. 
                                                                      
I understand the 1/3, BUT the for loops that this thread started with 
should still work because they can be represented!