[PD] countings

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Tim Blechmann wrote:

> > [mod 360] actually produces numbers between 0 and 359 forever and ever and
> > ever.
> it's true, you get numbers between 0 and 359. but it's possible that
> you reach an overflow ... in these cases it's not continuous...
> well, overflows won't happen that often, but you should be aware of
> this ;-)
> that's why i'd prefer the couter that's reseted when reaching 360...

Overflow will never happen.

It will stop at 16777216.

For, do this:

[16777216(
 |
[+ 1]
 |
[& 255]
 |
[print]

print: 0

This is because 16777215 is the last odd integer available in float32
format.



Note: if you save the patch and reload, the result will be much different:

print: 241

but that's because PD does a little too much rounding while saving the
patch. but with binary<->decimal conversions, it's either too much or too
little: the "number of significant (decimal) digits" is not integer.

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