[PD] sendOSC: handling big numbers

[brendan]

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

>
> On Sat, 7 May 2005, brendan wrote:
>
>>>> where the number box complains: "no method for '3e+006'
>>>
>>> You are absolutely correct. Just tried it myself, as I should have 
>>> before replying to your post. I assumed the confusion was about the 
>>> notation, not the object. Looks like a real live problem to me!
>>
>> The OSC Specification supports 64bit numbers, but they require an "h" 
>> type tag to be properly defined.  OSCx might not support the 'h' tag, 
>> you would have ask the developer.
>
>
> What's the link between 3e+006 and 64-bit numbers?
>
> 3000000 is representable exactly as both a float32 and an int32 
> number. For int32 the upper bound is about two billion, and for 
> float32 it's much higher.
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I just said the first thing I thought of, I'll take more care next 
time.  the upper limit for floats is a lot higher than I thought!

-brendan