> try some other base than the boring 2:)
0.2 decimal is 0.0121012101210121. in base 3 (well, you did ask
for something different :O)
It is not an irritational number because it can be represented by the
ratio of two integers - 1/5 decimal or 1/12 base 3 (hey, I've already
had my finger
Ah, now explained like that with all the maths makes it much clearer
(yes, really it does :) so when we want to find out the exponent of the
number whose common logarithm is the argument to INT() then we have a
useful function that does just that.
> This is one case where the manual gets it wro
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I still can't see the usefulness in having INT(-3.01)=-4 though. Any
> mathematicians care to comment?
Well, as an ex-mathematician I also was not surprised. I'm sure various
languages I've used have behaved the same way i.e. INT rounds down to the
Hmmm - the odd behaviour with negative numbers is not unique to SBASIC.
I've just tried it with QBASIC in NT and it does exactly the same.
I'd be interested to read the ISO or ANSI standard on this for the
justification. Curiously, the 68040 provides two instructions for
getting an integer
