Wow, thanks Tobias, I'll check these options out and report back.
Malcolm
On 13/02/2012 13:59, Tobias Fröschle wrote:
Am 13.02.2012 12:29, schrieb Malcolm Lear:
Thanks Lee, unfortunately the maths package doesn't seem to solve the
problem and I don't have access to the the Quanta library. I've just
looked through my QL Today discs, but can't find anything. Maybe one
of the tool kits.
On 13/02/2012 10:54, Lee Privett wrote:
I asked a similar question on the QL Forum here
http://www.qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=285
Dilwyn responded first with
"There was a Maths package by Helumt Aigner but not if it can do
what you want - have a look at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/tk/index.html.
Also, have a look in Quanta Library - disk MA01 - at CalQLator which
claims to do up to 120 decimal places. Author was E G Whitbread in
1985. I think program is in SuperBASIC so you might be able to look
at the code to see if it does what you want.
I seem to remember a QL program to calculate PI to some alarming
number of decimal places such as 1900, but can't remember where I
saw it - I just did a quick search on my website and Quanta library
but can't seem to find it. Possibly, it might have been in Phil
Jordan and Steve Johnson's PD libraries (disk 17 perhaps?)"
On 13 Feb 2012, at 10:44, Malcolm Lear wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know if or how a 32 bit number can be printed without
the scientific exponent jumping in?
Cheers
Malcolm
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Malcolm,
you might want to have a look at PRINT_USING which is part of Toolkit
II. You can use this to force printing in specific formats. It has,
however, a bit of odd behavior when the number doesn't fit the format
(it then just prints "******.**"
You can do the same thing using a PROCEDURE like the following (quick
and dirty) piece of code:
100 DEFine FuNction noexp$(value, digits)
110 LOCal digit, i, act$
115 DIM result$(20)
120 digit = 10^digits
130 i = 20
140 result$ = FILL$(" ", 20)
160 REPeat digiloop
170 act$ = INT((value * digit / 10 - INT (value * digit / 10)) * 10)
190 result$(i) = act$(1)
200 digit = digit / 10
220 IF digit == 1 THEN
230 i = i - 1
240 result$(i) = "."
245 i = i - 1
250 ELSE
260 i = i - 1
265 END IF
270 IF i = 0 THEN
280 EXIT digiloop
290 END IF
300 END REPeat digiloop
310 REPeat zeroloop
320 IF result$(1) = "0" AND result$(2)<> "." THEN
330 result$ = result$(2 TO)
335 ELSE
337 EXIT zeroloop
338 END IF
340 END REPeat
350 RETurn result$
360 END DEFine
You give it the value and the amount of decimal places after the comma.
(Just realized that it doesn't work for negative values).
Cheers,
Tobias
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