Re: [ql-users] Sbasic and numbers

[François Van Emelen]

P Witte wrote:

Yes, the Psion suite has its own fp routines (more precision (14 (16)
digits) but less magnitude). It is not too difficult to write your own fixed
or floating point routines in Basic using basic school maths, but they would
be relatively slow. (The book "Mathematics on the Sinclair QL", by Czes
Kosniowski (out of print) might provide a suitable starting point.)
I doubt I could do that myself.

But with the sort of numbers you give in your example (above) is it really
meaningful to operate with a precision of euro cents? Of course it depends
Officially prices in Euros must be displayed/printed with 2 decimals 
(even if 00): my packet of cigarettes costs me €4,00.

on what youre trying to do, but it seems to me that a resolution of a
thousand euro (or even a million) would give you a reasonably precise way of
dealing with those sort of figures. A suitable adaptation of the maxim "If
In a database (that's what I have been working this last couple of 
months - Front end for DBAS - ), it is the user who decides what he is 
going to put in the fields.

you cant change the world, change yourself!" might usefully be applied to
the problem.
Or in this situation; if more serious work is involved, avoid Qdos/Smsq ;-)


Per

Thanks all of you for your help and comments.
And now back to mute/silence/quiet/passive mode (well as usual on this 
list the last couple of months)

François Van Emelen