50 minutes late, aren't we?

It's still April 1st.

I must say, this is one of the best April Fools jokes yet.

!!!!!!!!!!!! Dang. You got me, but only because it's still March 31st here...I was WAITING for an April fools joke too. So, how did you calculate the price? Did you just have it be a function of time? Lol...that's REALLY funny. I had just asked my mom if I could invest in ticalc.org, and she called me a loser...where's the love?

It appears to be a convoluted math thing involving the time, written in Javascript.

Look at this programming... tsk tsk ;-)

change = Math.round((newprice-.25)/.25*100);

let me SIMPLIFY that for you ticalc staff:
change = Math.round(newprice*400-100);

write that in BASIC so i can understand; im a programmer you know

round(newprice*400-100,0)->change //BASIC CODE
just takes "newprice", multiplies by 400, subtracts 100, rounds to the nearest integer, and stores the result in "change"

Basic uses ' instead of // for comments. Too much PHP? C? C++? IC?

No, he was using TI-BASIC, not BASIC. Reglar BASIC uses the = assignment operator. TI-BASIC uses the STO (->). And in TI-BASIC, there are no comments (z80), but if you're going to have some kind of comments, the standard // type is pretty universal for everybody to understand.

What I want to know is why did TI allow comments using the copyright character (or at all) on the 68k calcs? Does anyone use them? It's just a waste of space if you ask me.

Well, I bet you didn't know about the extra "hidden" feature about that comment thing...If you put a comment on the line IMmediately after the "Prgm" line, by itself, then go to "catalog" then "User Defined", it will have a little help status bar at the bottom, and if you hit the help soft key, a whole PAGE of help consisting of what you typed in the comment. Try this code to see what I mean (the (C) is the comment character):

test()
:Prgm
:(C) [No Arguments to program] This program is sooo
cool. It does nothing, but it is a MUST HAVE!!!
:EndPrgm

Then press Catalog, F4 (i think that's the "user defined button), then scroll down to "test" and look at the status bar. Then hit F1 (i think that's the help button) and see the whole comment...oh BTW, I'm not sure if this works on anything but the 89 and 92/+, but give it a try!

The point of writing code is not necessarily to simplify it, because then the readability is lost. The line clearly shows that it's calculating the percent gained based on an initial price of 25 cents, while *400-100 does not.

which is why you have comments which don't slow down performance...not that this issue is going to slow it down much more than a picoosecond... ;)

Floating point takes much longer than fixed. I would agree that using the fixed with a comment would be best, but who's to question Mr. Vincent. He knows what he is doing, as always. :)

Aww. But you forget. He's a programer. He knows these things. ;)

In fact, I don't even see the need to have the Math.round(). newprice is a number with up to two decimal places. Multiplying it by 100 makes it an integer again and defeats the need to use Math.round(). :-)

Is it obvious that I don't program in JavaScript, nor have I ever used the math functions before? :)

hehe...view source gave me this:
>> var d = new Date();
>> ctime = d.getTime();
>> newprice = Math.round(.001 * (ctime - 1080780677968))/100;
>> document.write( newprice);
>> change = Math.round( (newprice-.25)/.25*100);
>> document.write('<BR> <FONT SIZE="-1">Change: </FONT> <FONT COLOR="#004000" SIZE="-1">');
>> document.write( change);
>> document.write( '%</FONT>');
So I was right. You used a time funciton and made it look like a dollar amount....I hate you guys....

Judging from the 1080780677968 in there, it appears that Date.getTime() returns the number of milliseconds since 1969 (that is, counting from 00:00 on Jan 1, 1970).

that's exactly correct....

Commonly refered to as the epoch...at least for PCs.

LOL! You really believed it? :) Hehe, I was expecting any article I read around April 1st to be fake, so I was ready for it. I'm surprised they did it early though (for us EST people).

Dang! Why do it so early for EST? ot's 8:19 pm! Why do people hate the east coast? Excuse me, but i have to call up my lawyer and file a few lawsuits...

From PST, where I am, it's 5 PM.

LOL!
Well, it was even worse when I first read the post.
In australia, it was already 11 oclock! lol!

It was already up to about $5 when it was first posted!

Again, great april fools joke! lol!!!!!
[it alomost got me for a moment. but then it clicked!]

[The radio played a great trick this morning! They said that Athens arent going to be ready for the olympics, so Sydney is going to hold them again! They even got politicians on the phone to make out that it was official! Then this woman rang in complaining how she had already bought non-refundable tickets and didnt know what to do!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!]

wait; it was a joke?

*puzzled*

Yes, young grasshopper. This is the triditional April fool's day fake post. They don't tell you it is fake, so they can trap you. Ah, youg one, I remember the V400 like it were yesterday...

-W-

I'm from AK so it's not even the first yet. 8:02 3/31

The V400 was great. I would love to be in charge of making fake pictures like that one and the one where the 7th grader overclocked his TI-89 w/ radium.

The radioactive 89 was one of the better ticalc pranks. I lmao when i read it

Dang! Why do it so early for EST? ot's 8:19 pm on the
1st! Why do people hate the east coast? Excuse me, but i have to call up my lawyer and file a few lawsuits...

I'm central time! Don't I count? The javascript is cool. I'm a few hours late, I know, but its 9:50 here...

EST people...it's 2 or 3 hours earlier than that here in AZ. It was around 6:00 when I first read the post, so I wasn't ready for April fools just yet. I was expecting it later on tonight. Again, great job TiCalc, however, we're catching on more quickly than I remember...

Alcatraz! Whoa, someone on the inside. Get out soon...

AZ=Arizona. Close, but no cigar.

Close? hmmm, someone have something against Arizonans? But anyway, I think he was joking...

whoa, i just realized something, your birthday is probably July 2 1986 which makes you exactly 364 days older than me!

Yes, July 2nd, 1986 is correct. Where did that come from? So, your birthday is July 1st? That would mean that for ONE day out of every year, we are the same age. That is worth celebrating. ;)

your userid has 7286 in it, which bore a strong resemblence to the 7187 i have attached to my slashdot user name.

well, actually, I meant that I was born on July 28th, 1906. Hence the 7, 28, and 6... ;)

Maybe that's their new idea-- don't post it when we expect so that they can still throw us off. All of us (except new people) expect ticalc to have an April Fools Joke on 4/1. If they did it on any other random day, I bet they could fool most of us ;-)

That one sentence looks weird-- except/expect

Oh gosh you gouys are putting way too much thought into this :-)

Would it surprise you id say for instance we threw it all together a couple hours before? Not saying that we did of course! :-)

Of course not. It would take Michael Vincent DAYS to make code like that, let alone the time it would take to debug it...although the inefficiency of the calculations may have sped up the process maybe by 5 minutes... ;) j/k, MV. I still love you. No matter how inefficient of a JavaScript programmer you are...