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To: Nazbuster who wrote (6412)9/7/1998 7:30:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 11149
 
Daniel,

Your problem is caused by the implicit type casting. 1/8 means integer divide 1/8 which is 0. 1.0/8 yields .125 as you expect.
The same features are found in C and many other languages. There no explicit type casts in QP. This will work...

output="tst.lst";
float dec, fr;
dec:= 1 + .125; fr:= 1 + 1.0/8;
println symbol,",",dec,",",fr;

Sean



To: Nazbuster who wrote (6412)9/7/1998 7:31:00 PM
From: Bob Jagow  Respond to of 11149
 
Daniel,
Why don't you post the code that you are unable to write because of the 'bug' and let me judge its severity?

Hint: I consider the equality between 1/8 and 0.125 common enough knowledge to make .125 an acceptable workaround ;)

Bob
[edit] I see Sean answered your question. Missed that, even though I used a version of it recently in some qp code where I had to truncate some floats to ints.


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