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Re: float32, float64?

• Posted by "Lucius L. Hilley III" <lhilley at CDC.NET> Nov 19, 1999
• 524 views

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> Sender:       Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS
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> Poster:       Bernie Ryan <bwryan at PCOM.NET>
> Subject:      Re: float32, float64?
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> On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 12:51:05 -0500, Lucius L. Hilley III <lhilley at CDC.NET>
> wrote:
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> >    My request is simple.  Improve the type below.
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>   Lucius: Can't you do this ?
>
> --
> global
> type float( atom val)
>   if ( val >= -3.4E38 and val <= 3.4E38 ) then return 1 else return 0 end
if
> end type
> --
> --
> global
> type double( atom val)
>   if ( val >= -1.7E308 and val <= 1.7E308 ) then return 1 else return 0
end
> if
> end type
> --
>
>    Bernie
>

    I can now. :)  Thank you.  I didn't know the exact values.
I figured at least 1 of about 200 minds would know.

        Lucius L. Hilley III
        lhilley at cdc.net
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