[PD] Long long numbers

[B. Bogart]

did you look at wrap from zexy?

.b.

Dafydd Hughes wrote:
> I wish it was something as noble as gravitation, but it's just a clock
> which counts seconds from about 30000BC to now. It's easier to do
> using [mod] on the counters, but the way it's animated means it makes
> a smooth transition around the dial then jumps back to 0 instead of
> smoothly moving on. Just letting the rotation get bigger and bigger
> without modulo eliminates this problem, but does nasty things once the
> numbers get too long.
> 
> Luckily, Python can deal with much longer numbers. My solution is to
> do the counting and splitting in python, then have 2 clocks in Gem
> which are out of phase so one is rewinding with the gemhead off while
> the other goes smoothly to 0, then they switch. There's probably a
> much simpler solution.
> 
> Is any of this making sense? I'm pretty tired and I've had a couple of beers:)
> 
> Thanks everybody for the help.
> 
> cheers
> dafydd
> 
> On Dec 21, 2007 10:16 PM, Patrice Colet <pat at mamalala.org> wrote:
>> Mathieu Bouchard a écrit :
>>> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, B. Bogart wrote:
>>>
>>>> I always wonder when you say large numbers and rotation...
>>>>
>>>> Do you really need large numbers? I never checked if its slower to
>>>> rotateXYZ to 360*100 compared to rotation to 360.
>>> I really wonder why Dafydd wants large numbers for rotation. I thought
>>> that it was for something that really needs large numbers. For all you
>>> can see on a display, float32 is already much more than necessary.
>>>
>>   float32 is not enough for avoiding round off errors with astronomical
>> values, for example if we would like to use the Newton universal
>> gravitation formula,
>>
>>   F = G(m1*m2)/r^2
>>
>>   the radius would exceed the range of affordable numbers into this
>> computation, and then the result wouldn't be accurate, so we can not
>> simulate Newton laws with using pd arithmetic objects only.
>>
>>   Cheerfull xmas and NYear.
>>
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