<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456587417543_3306" dir="ltr">> we should have switched to doubles long ago.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456587417543_3307"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456587417543_3308">According to katja, that would trigger a zombie apocalypse in external land. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456587417543_3311" dir="ltr">And the only way to tell the zombies from the survivors would be to... *gulp*...</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456587417543_3340" dir="ltr">actually read external library code.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456587417543_3312" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456587417543_3529" dir="ltr">Personally, I'd rather get eaten by a zombie than do that.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456587417543_3571" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456587417543_3604" dir="ltr">-Jonathan<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456587417543_3313" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Saturday, February 27, 2016 10:31 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig@iem.at> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">On 02/27/2016 09:55 AM, William Huston wrote:<br clear="none">> I really wish Pd had a 32 bit integer data type for counters, and other<br clear="none">> places where integers are appropriate.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">actually i strongly disagree: i think it is one of Pd's killer features<br clear="none">to have a single numeric type.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">the only problem is that the actually used numeric type (single<br clear="none">precision floating point) is rather limited.<br clear="none">we should have switched to doubles long ago.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">gfmdsar<div class="yqt4481893875" id="yqtfd08254"><br clear="none">IOhannes<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><br><div class="yqt4481893875" id="yqtfd86849">_______________________________________________<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at" href="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at">Pd-list@lists.iem.at</a> mailing list<br clear="none">UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list" target="_blank">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>