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Re: Many Digits was: Help!!!!!

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Apr 22, 1998
• 788 views

At 03:38 PM 4/22/98 -0400, you wrote:

>Irv Mullins reported:
>> atom x
>> x =
>>200000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
>0000000000000000
>> printf(1,"%d",x)
>> The above works. If you add one more 0, it blows up.
>> (not LOCKS UP, just quits with an error message -- thanks RDS)
>
>Thanks for reporting this. It's supposed to work no matter how
>many digits you type (up to the maximum length of a line - 200
>characters.). It fails for me too, when I add an extra digit.
>It fails in the assignment statement, *before* the call to printf().
>
>Internally, it fails when I  pass the string of 92 digits to
>WATCOM's sscanf() C routine. So it's actually a C bug,
>not a Euphoria bug.   
>
>I'll fix it for the next release.
>
>Regards,
>     Rob Craig
>     Rapid Deployment Software
>
Thanks, It wasn't a complaint. I was amazed that Euphoria
could handle a number *that* large! Not even my tax bill
is that large.

Irv
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