OpenEuphoria

Re: Poking decimals

• Posted by 1evan at sbcglobal.net Jun 26, 2003
• 431 views

That makes a heck of a lot of sense.  I think my brain is on an extended 
vacation.  The built-in atom_to_float32 works wonderfully, too. (Thanks 
Brian Broker)

Thanks for the suggestion.  I should probably go to bed now, but I'm 
having too much fun!


jbrown105 at speedymail.org wrote:
> 
> 
> Using poke4(address, number*1000) and (peek4s(address)/1000) will get you
> a fixed precision of 3 decimal places, at the cost of reducing the whole
> number part of the decimal by the 3 uppermost decimal places that a 32bit
> number
> can represent ... you probably don't need to worry about this, and if you do
> then you are better off using 64bit floating point instead of fixed precision.
> 
> jbrown
> 
> 1evan wrote:
> 
> 
>>How do you go about poking decimals into memory?  I just need about 3 
>>decimal places of precision.
> 
>