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Re: Going outside the interger limits [message #41083 is a reply to message #40958]

Wed, 22 September 2004 09:55

R.G. Stockwell
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"Lloyd Watkin" <lloyd@evilprofessor.co.uk> wrote in message news:c3f97ff.0409220637.380f5018@posting.google.com...
> In the end, it turned out that I was taking fix(a float) where as what
> I should of done is taken long(a float) as I knew I'd be going outside
> the limit.
>
> Typical!
>
> Thanks for all the help as usual,
>
> Lloyd Watkin

lol, i do this all the time (well i did until i outlawed the use of fix)
That and using "for i = 0, maxint-1 do begin"
instead of "for i = 0L, maxint-1 do begin"

They should change the name of fix() to areyousureyouwanttocasttoashort()

Cheers,
bob

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		Going outside the interger limits By: lloyd on Tue, 21 September 2004 04:22
		Re: Going outside the interger limits By: JD Smith on Wed, 22 September 2004 11:46
		Re: Going outside the interger limits By: R.G. Stockwell on Wed, 22 September 2004 09:55
		Re: Going outside the interger limits By: David Fanning on Wed, 22 September 2004 08:03

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