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Black Shadow

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Posted: 6th Mar 2005 06:49 Edited at: 6th Mar 2005 06:51

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OK I know what A byte is but, what is a "word" a "float" and a "long" and a "long word"?

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Posted: 6th Mar 2005 10:13 Edited at: 6th Mar 2005 10:14

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I have never heard of a long word before the only types like this that you can read/write to file are

word, byte, long (integer), float (real) , string

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 DATA TYPE RANGES

Each type of data has a maximum and minimum value known as the range. It is important to know these ranges, especially when dealing with smaller datatypes. Below is a list of datatypes and their ranges:


INTEGER Range : –2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647
REAL Range : 3.4E +/- 38 (7 digits)
BOOLEAN Range : 0 to 1
BYTE Range : 0 to 255
WORD Range : 0 to 65535
DWORD Range : 0 to 4,294,967,295
DOUBLE INTEGER Range : –9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807
DOUBLE FLOAT Range : 1.7E +/- 308 (15 digits)

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005 05:57

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Thanks for your Help!

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005 06:40

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i would also recommend looking at this thread:
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=47531&b=1

i have had problems when creating user defined types.
like:

type Chicken_location
x as float
y as byte
z as integer
endtype

dim c(3) as chicken location

if i try direct mathmetical operators to part of it, like
z=c(1).z*c(1).y
i often get some unexpected result.
but then, if i say
z=c(1).z
y=c(1).y
x=z*y

x is what i think it should be. this may only be a problem with BYTEs
or it may be with all things. so pass your byte and word variables into 'dummy' integers before applying maths.

bob

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=44054&b=5

http://astrumgames.com

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