Masking a number

[richard]

pbp has no floating point type vars so a discussion about floating point arithmetic on this forum is probably inappropriate

a value like 0.995 is a float type .
google "comparing floating point numbers" for an explanation

[richard]

for your second question

I'm not good at maths, so can you explain what 'digit masking of float types is an invalid action' please

I think you mean
I'm not good at maths, so can you explain why 'digit masking of float types is an invalid action' please


see this link for how a computer stores a floating point number (I would assume Oshonsoft uses ieee754 32 bit floats) masking floats is entirely inappropriate

http://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html

[camerart]

for your second question

I think you mean
I'm not good at maths, so can you explain why 'digit masking of float types is an invalid action' please


see this link for how a computer stores a floating point number (I would assume Oshonsoft uses ieee754 32 bit floats) masking floats is entirely inappropriate

http://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html

Hi R,

It appears that I'm not good at English either

Thanks, I'll check the link.

C.

[camerart]

Ok, thanks. C.