> As long as you don't use decimal places you can consider that reals in
> SBasic are long integers (even if they always have a two 
> bytes mantissa)
           ^^  exponent?

True, except that you will find yourself having to use the dreaded INT 
to get rid of the decimal places that will inevitably crop up after 
divisions.  That's why I'd prefer it to do simple truncation rather 
than rounding.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CMOUR 
> Sent: 21 June 2001 10:51
> To: ql-users
> Cc: CMOUR
> Subject: RE: [ql-users] NEXT in FOR-loop
> 
> 
> As long as you don't use decimal places you can consider that reals in
> SBasic are long integers (even if they always have a two 
> bytes mantissa) 
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Envoyé : jeudi 21 juin 2001 11:42
> À : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Objet : RE: [ql-users] NEXT in FOR-loop
> 
> 
> Hello,
> I would have liked to have 32-bit integer variables in SBASIC.  The 
> Acorn Atom I believe had 32-bit integers (but no floats unless you 
> bought the add-on ROM).
> 
> Ian. 
> 


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