1 = 1 ?

[minicooper97de]

hi all,

i have something curious... try this in your message box:

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put "700901001234567890131400" into x;add 0 to x; put x

perhaps there is a reason - but i do not know - do you?

andi

[dunbarx]

Hmmm.

I get:

700901001234567890131400

Craig Newman

[jmburnod]

Strange result for me too
I get:

700901001234567940538368

Best
Jean-Marc

[dunbarx]

I get the same output as input.

Jean-Marc, are you really getting the last third of the number mixed up?

And miniCooper. are you getting something similar? The number is 24 digits long. Does a shorter one, say 16 or 20 digits, come out as it should?

Craig

[dave_probertGA6e24]

Hi,

On both 5.5.5 and 6.1.1, I too get the messed up number. Same one as JM.

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put "11111111111111111" into x;add 0 to x; put x

productes: 11111111111111112

Adding 1's into there makes the output number even stranger.

I'm guessing that the eval of the string to number can't handle larger numbers properly (in the messagebox, at least)

Cheers,
Dave

[Simon]

About 5 months ago this was brought up on the Dev list, there are apparently ways to work around this.
You only get 16 digits using the standard liveCode arithmetic.

Simon

[minicooper97de]

About 5 months ago this was brought up on the Dev list, there are apparently ways to work around this.
You only get 16 digits using the standard liveCode arithmetic.

Simon

thanks simon, this seems to be the problem...
i have to calculate a checksum like:

700901001234567890131400 mod 97

the result in livecode: 38
the correct result: 90

very frustrating - not to get any hints or errors just an incorrct result.

anyone out there with a solution????

thanks in advance, andi

[jmburnod]

Hi Craig

Jean-Marc, are you really getting the last third of the number mixed up?

Yes

Jean-Marc