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  3. April 2007

Re: Floating point conversion

Joep

The prospect of using that much multiplication - very inefficient - remember how we used to flip YYMMDD to MMDDYY using multiplication and were told not to - today's machines probably are fast enough for this not to be a problem, but there are more direct ways, as some have already described.

Regards
Vern

At 09:25 AM 4/4/2007, you wrote:

power = 0;
floatwork = float;
myint = %int(floatwork);
dow (myint < 1);
power += 1;
floatwork *= 10;
myint = %int(floatwork);
enddo;

Joep Beckeringh


Doug Palme wrote:
> The issue with that would be I am never going to know for sure what the
> power is....


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