He must be talking big money. Doesnt a float go upto some like 3.4 *10 to
the power of 32 ??? Which is more money than is in the entire World !!!!!!!
Rik
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Howard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 19 July 2001 15:46
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: Re: palm-dev-forum digest: July 18, 2001
>
> Hi there
> Rather than using floats why dont you use an unsigned 32bit int and use
> fixed point notation (ie just multiply everything up by 100) for your
> internal calcualtions and just divide down when you want to display the
> result. is $42,949,670.99 big enough to cover your orders ?. 8-) (the
> dragonball processor will probably handle the maths a bit faster too)
>
> FWIW- I also have a paypal account, 0.01% of your total orders should do
> the
> job just fine 8-)
>
> Jon...
>
> >
> > Subject: unsigned float?
> > From: "JF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 18:58:29 -0700
> > X-Message-Number: 118
> >
> > Is there a way to get either an unsigned float or a double-length float?
> > Either 4 unsigned bytes or 8 signed bytes (instead of 4)?
> >
> > My app calculates an order total dollar amount, and if it's too big,
> goes
> > into negative.. So I either need to reserve more bits for positive
> numbers,
> > or find a way to use the existing ones better.
> >
> > For example, I only need accuracy to 2 decimal places. Is there a way to
> > declare it so only 2 decimal places are recorded and the rest of the
> bits
> > are used for the whole number portion?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Jason
> >
>
>
>
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