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#### selectcoaxial

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##### Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #555 on: August 03, 2011, 04:03:37 am »
Thank you! I read somewhere on the forum that Axe doesn't handle decimals numbers and it will be rounded automatically down and up. Is that right? Is there a routine or a way to store numbers such as 0.53?

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##### Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #556 on: August 03, 2011, 04:39:12 am »
You could store the values 0.00 to 655.35 in two bytes if you multiplicate your values by 100.
Displaying them correctly would be possible with an own displaying routine.
Furthermore Axe supports access to the floating-point variables of the OS afaik. Just take a look at the commands list.

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##### Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #557 on: August 03, 2011, 05:06:28 am »
There is also the new decimal feature in Axe... If you type: 0.53, it will automatically convert the number to fixed point notation, which in hex would be: 0x0087.  Some common operations with fixed point numbers are FP-inverse and FP-multiplication.  Converting from fixed point to decimal is easy: Divide by 256 to get the integer part.  Mod by 256 to get the fractional part (a fraction out of 256).
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##### Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #558 on: August 03, 2011, 07:33:37 am »
You could store the values 0.00 to 655.35 in two bytes if you multiplicate your values by 100.
Displaying them correctly would be possible with an own displaying routine.
Furthermore Axe supports access to the floating-point variables of the OS afaik. Just take a look at the commands list.

Perhaps you mean 0.0 to 255.255?  655.35 wouldnt work so well as a FP high limit, considering the decimal part and integer part are both 8 bits.

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##### Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #559 on: August 03, 2011, 09:23:42 am »
You could store the values 0.00 to 655.35 in two bytes if you multiplicate your values by 100.
Displaying them correctly would be possible with an own displaying routine.
Furthermore Axe supports access to the floating-point variables of the OS afaik. Just take a look at the commands list.

Perhaps you mean 0.0 to 255.255?  655.35 wouldnt work so well as a FP high limit, considering the decimal part and integer part are both 8 bits.
Nah, I think he meant what he said.  I'm pretty sure he was giving an example with 100 as an arbitrary number.
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##### Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #560 on: August 03, 2011, 10:46:22 am »
Your mixing your bases with 255.255, as that number is beyond Axe's precision in decimal and out of bounds in hex. What you're looking for is 0xFF.FF, 255+(255/256) in decimal.
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#### selectcoaxial

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##### Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #561 on: August 04, 2011, 05:53:54 am »
I found a way around using decimals numbers . thanks. I'm having a problem with calling sub functions. I'm using Ashbad's guide for Axe v0.5.3 because I've had problems of getting my RAM and Archive cleared when I used Axe v1.0.1. The problem I'm having with my program is that it display the value of C 6 times, even though I only ask for it thrice, and the value of C is even different from each other in every Disp call. the code is below:

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.PASTsub(PAS,5)Lbl PAS1->C1->Kr1-K->Bsub(EXC,r1)A->CDisp C>Dec,isub(EXC,K)C/A->CDisp C>Dec,isub(EXC,B)C/A->CDisp C>Dec,iReturnLbl EXC1->AFor(I,1,r1A*I->AEndReturn
Display are as follow: 120, 120, 5, 24, 24, 4

EXC is used for factorials ! and PAS is to generate a binomial coefficient.

The value for C I expected is 5
« Last Edit: August 04, 2011, 06:21:54 am by selectcoaxial »

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##### Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #562 on: August 04, 2011, 07:27:09 am »
Your problem is that you don't quit the program after calling sub(PAS). Then the programm will pass this function twice -> you get it displayed 6 times.
put a return after
sub(PAS,5)
« Last Edit: August 04, 2011, 07:27:35 am by MGOS »

#### selectcoaxial

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##### Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #563 on: August 05, 2011, 10:06:55 am »
I don't think so because if I use
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sub(EXC,3)Disp A>Dec,i
I only get 1 display.

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##### Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #564 on: August 05, 2011, 10:10:30 am »
Advice: Don't use axe 1.0.0 or 1.0.1 as of now, they have a pretty good bug that killed my calculator (still trying to fix it).
« Last Edit: August 05, 2011, 10:11:19 am by zeldaking »

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##### Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #565 on: August 05, 2011, 02:33:45 pm »
Advice: Don't use axe 1.0.0 or 1.0.1 as of now, they have a pretty good bug that killed my calculator (still trying to fix it).

You can use 1.0.2

Your problem is that you don't quit the program after calling sub(PAS). Then the programm will pass this function twice -> you get it displayed 6 times.
put a return after
sub(PAS,5)

Very, very correct.  PAS will be executed twice; the return for the definition label will eventually be used as the program-quitting return statement.  Put a return there where he said too; everything else seems fine from my quick skimming through it.

Your mixing your bases with 255.255, as that number is beyond Axe's precision in decimal and out of bounds in hex. What you're looking for is 0xFF.FF, 255+(255/256) in decimal.

Meh, 255.255 isn't out of the range at all.  It's the same as 0xFF.FF, but in decimal form, since 0xFF == 255.  It's a correct representation.
« Last Edit: August 05, 2011, 02:37:30 pm by Ashbad »

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##### Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #566 on: August 05, 2011, 04:28:11 pm »
Just for clarification because people seem to be confused: fixed point numbers in Axe are represented in decimal just like you would represent them normally. 255.255 is not 255+(255/256) or 0xFFFF. It's a decimal representation, so 255.255 is 255+(255/1000) or 0xFF41. If you wanted to represent the maximum fixed point number, you would use 255.999 which is 0xFFFF.
« Last Edit: August 05, 2011, 04:31:26 pm by Runer112 »

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##### Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #567 on: August 05, 2011, 08:17:53 pm »
but, to keep it clean since you can't represent every single one of those 255,999 numbers, 255.255 is a better representation because it keeps you thinking in binary terms.  255.999 works, but it's rather misleading because you can't access all of the numbers such as 255.999, 255.998, 255.997, etc.  you can only access 25.5% of them.  255.255 is a better representation because while it doesn't conform perfectly to decimal standards (it makes it seem like the max limit on the fpart is just over 1/4) it represents the range better, as it's just a decimal representation of each separate ipart and fpart, instead of the value as a whole.  I still stand correct, as it's still a correct representation, just a different one.

« Last Edit: August 05, 2011, 08:25:37 pm by Ashbad »

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##### Re: Axe Q&A
« Reply #568 on: August 05, 2011, 08:33:22 pm »
It's not the representation Axe uses though. So whether or not it can be correct in other situations, I don't want people using it in Axe and then being helplessly confused when their program acts just a little strange because of a slightly off constant.
« Last Edit: August 05, 2011, 08:38:00 pm by Runer112 »