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Re: Basic Math: I _hope_ this is a stupid question [message #43840 is a reply to message #43752]

Thu, 28 April 2005 06:15

K. Bowman
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Registered: May 2000

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In article <1114641742.781488.240230@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
"Ed Hyer" <ejhyer@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks all. I had encountered this before, and gotten used to writing
> for i=0l,bignumber (which I do a lot less of since I started read
> comp.lang.idl-pvwave), but I never knew exactly where the threshold
> was, and always sort of assumed it was somewhere up there, certainly
> not 32768. I guess that's why integer math is fast.

I think the best available approach is to include

COMPILE_OPT IDL2

in all functions and procedures, and your startup.pro. That makes LONG the
default integer type and requires the use of square brackets for array
subscripting (to avoid confusion with function references).

Ken Bowman

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		Re: Basic Math: I _hope_ this is a stupid question By: MarioIncandenza on Wed, 27 April 2005 16:14
		Re: Basic Math: I _hope_ this is a stupid question By: Geoff Cureton on Wed, 27 April 2005 09:26
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