help about picbasic

[mohsen]

hi
how I can work with numbers thet is bigger then one word (65536) in pic basic
 

[mississippi1]

Than take 2 words, and if you cross boundary of the first word than add 1 to the second word.

[pickit2]

hi
how I can work with numbers thet is bigger then one word (65536) in pic basic
 

just use float

[TomJackson69]

just use float

Hi Mohson,

Take your large decimal number and devide for 65536 ($FFFF), put the answer into HighWord, the remainder put in LowWord.

Ex)
       LargeNumber = float        / define variables
       HighWord      = word
       LowWord       = word

Now in your program do some calculation and get the data in the variable LargeNumber. Let say LargeNumber now = 987654.

Take     987654
            --------  = 15.07040405
            65536

Now put HighWord = 15
And       LowWord  = 4614    (.07040405 x 65536 = 4613.9999999)

Or you can convert your LargeNumber yo HEX number. 987654 =$F1206 (in Basic you must have Dec to Hex convert function.

Now HighWord = $0F = 15
And  LowWord  = $1206 = 4614  (HEX number is nicer)

Hope that help,

Tom

Sory I don't have PICbasic (know a little in Proton Basic)


       

[Bitburner]

hi
how I can work with numbers thet is bigger then one word (65536) in pic basic
 

V2.50
With the latest versions of the PICBASIC PRO Compiler there is now a signed, long variable type. Each long variable is made up of 4 sequential bytes in memory - that’s 32 bits. The numeric values that can be represented in a long variable range from -2147483648 to 2147483647, or in some cases, from 0 to 4294967295.

For the non-long version of the compiler (PBPW.EXE), temporaries are word-sized. For the long version of the compiler (PBPL.EXE), temporaries need to be long sized.

Code:

Average Var Long
L1 = 123456 ‘ This is 123.456 in fixed point form
L2 = 234567 ‘ This is 234.567 in fixed point form
L3 = -456789 ‘ This is -456.789 in fixed point form
Average = (L1 + L2 + L3) / 3
Lcdout Sdec (Average / 1000), “.�, Dec3 ((Abs Average) // 1000))

There are some specific commands that can benefit from a larger variable size.
While all the commands can now accept longs as any of their parameters, longs can be helpful in commands such as Count, Pause, Pulsin, Pulsout, Rctime, Shiftin and Shiftout.
In the Count command, for example, a long variable can store a count far larger than the previous limit of 65535 using a word variable.
Shiftin and Shiftout can now move 32 bits with a single variable or constant.
Pauses can get really long, using longs.
Of course, loop commands like For..Next, Repeat..Until and While..Wend can also use a long variable.
Then there are the Lookdown2 and Lookup2 commands that can now search for and return very large numbers.


This should help you get over that 65535 barrier!

Have fun,
Bitburner