Re: TIB: Real Number to String
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Re: TIB: Real Number to String
If you want to write your own program, that's great, but I'd like to remind
everyone that there are already several number-to-string programs at
ticalc.org.
>From: Eric Tollefson <CmdrERT01@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org
>To: ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org
>Subject: Re: TIB: Real Number to String
>Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 22:55:23 -0400
>
>
>Quite true, but that won't help in this situation (I already thought of
>that
>before I asked). That won't differentiate between .631 and .6319305 (for
>example), which is what I was looking to do. In any case, I actually
>already modified the program to take care of this. I uploaded it to ticalc
>earlier today, hopefully it'll be appearing soon (TI-83/83+ Basic Misc.
>Progs). Basically, all I did was to change the program so that instead of
>asking for a number of decimals, it simply starts at the beginning of the
>number and keeps cycling through powers of 10 and subtracting until its
>left
>with zero (which would be the end of the number). It works quite nicely,
>and with little or no reduction in speed (actually a gain since there is
>one
>less input for the user to make). With a very slight modification (taking
>out the input/output commands), it would make a nice subroutine. Any of
>you
>are welcome to use it as such, all I ask is that if you publish the program
>you give me some minor credit for it.
>
>Eric Tollefson
>CmdrERT01@yahoo.com
>
>Lloyd Hugh Allen wrote:
>
> > Common log.
> >
> > By definition,
> >
> > Log(100)=2
> > Log(10)=1
> > Log(1)=0
> > Log(0.1)=-1
> >
> > And so 0 < log(5) < 1, etc. etc.
> >
> > Praise be to Napier and company.
> >
> > At 13:17 17-09-2000 -0400, you wrote:
> > >
> > >Wow, I'm impressed. After testing this program, I discovered that its
> > >really fast, much faster than I would have expected. The only thing I
> > >can think of to impove it further would be to make it automatically set
> > >the number of decimal places to go to. However, I don't know of any
> > >really easy way to do this that wouldn't slow down the program
> > >immensely. Anybody out there know of a quick way to find the number of
> > >decimal places?
> > >
> > >Eric Tollefson
> > >CmdrERT01@yahoo.com
> > >
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