[PD-dev] common date format for Pd

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jun 15, 2006, at 4:53 AM, geiger wrote:

>
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>>>> Since Pd only has 19bits of integer resolution
>>>
>>> are you sure about this? i seem to recall matju explaining its 23
>>> bits or so..
>
> PDa uses 19 bits for its fixed point representation, maybe thats  
> where you
> got this number from ...
>
> Günter

999,999 is the largest number that can be represented in Pd without  
scientific notation.  999,999 in binary is:

1111 0100 0010 0011 1111

But Pd cannot represent this number exactly:

1111 1111 1111 1111 1111  (1,048,575)

but it can represent this number exactly:

0111 1111 1111 1111 1111  (524,287)

Therefore Pd can represent 19-bits of integer accurately.

.hc

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