I may be old fashioned, in that I always thought that the Apple SANE limits, 19 digits, was still the law of the land. This is OS9 stuff, though and I could just be doddering. But it would mean that setting the number format to such an outrageous string would be futile, most of that string ignored by the OS. But I could be wrong.
Craig Newman Sent from my iPhone On Jun 23, 2013, at 10:20 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems odd that I haven't stumbled into this before and I am sure I am > doing something wrong, I just can't seem to find a better way around the > issue of working with small numbers. > > Suppose I want to multiply two small numbers such as: 1.23456e-41 * 1e-20. > Unless I am happy with a result of 0, I have to use a really odd numberFormat > statement such as: > > set the numberformat to "0.##########...############" where " …" represents > sixty or so '#' > > This seems really odd. Surely there is a better way to do this. Can someone > help? > > Thanks, > John > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
