FIX question

[Mike Luther]

Thanks Michael ..

That's what I thought, but I wanted someone else's support before
I went off chasing this one. 20 times 20 to the 7th power or more
is a lot of room for error, chuckle.



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[Michael Mattias]

Integer Division will handle that..

FIX (A&/B&) = A&\B&

[Mike Luther]

Yes, Mike .. correct. But in this case what I was intending to
do was to divide one by the other, or whatever, and use the FIX
technique to munch the answer at the time of the divide. Such as
in FIX(A&&/B&&) or like that. Until it got above a 'correct' next
division operation, we would have a remaining part for the division
which if I used the technique correctly would only produce a 'clean'
result for each 10, 20, whatever steps I wanted. Doing this in a
non-FIX way usually produces the next higher integer after you get
to the mid point in the operation.




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[Michael Mattias]

Come to think of it, FIX or INT versus a %,& or && is equally silly, since neither INTEGER, LONG or QUAD have decimal parts.

[Michael Mattias]

Um, pointers have no fractional part. Using FIX or INT against one of these numbers is a waste of time.

[Mike Luther]

Does the FIX function work correctly on not only simple integers
such as the '%' variety, but also '&' and '&&' as well? I'm now
being forced to deal with very huge linked list pointers into
upwards of seventh generation 'children' and need to be able to
focus all children of a particular parent to a starting pointer
in that family which I can do with it if this is true.

Thanks!


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