[PD] [until] ceiling

hans w. koch hansw.koch at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 09:57:35 CEST 2018


thanks, cyrille,

but why does the computation for 5pow12 [print start] in my patch then still produce 2.44141e+08?
or 5pow12 - 4pow12 work?
(see attached)

cheers hans

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> Am 26.04.2018 um 09:46 schrieb cyrille henry <ch at chnry.net>:
> 
> hello,
> 
> this is not a probem with until, but a problem of big number precision.
> see attachment.
> cheers
> c
> 
> 
> Le 26/04/2018 à 09:30, hans w. koch a écrit :
>> dear miller,
>> all
>> for a project i am working with very high number of iterations.
>> but it seems i´ve literally hit a ceiling with [until]
>> for 4pow12 iterations it performs fine.
>> but 5pow12 doesn´t.
>> feeding it into a counter,  5pow12 produces the same result as 4pow12.
>> attached a small patch to demonstrate.
>> is this limitation by purpose?
>> (i have a workaround not using [until], but wanted to make sure i didn´t overlook something)
>> thanks
>> hans
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