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yugniht
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| I was reading a readme file on ticalc for a program that draws the mandelbrot set. It said that it uses integer operation and not floating point. Does anybody know the difference, apparently I'm not smart enough and I'm too lazy to spend time on figuring it out on my own. |
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Arcane Wizard
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| Posted: 04 Aug 2003 05:49:45 pm Post subject: |
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Floating point: 5.4
Integer: 5
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EDIT: I don't know what exactly floating-point is, I think I once did, but probably not  .
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Darth Android
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| Posted: 04 Aug 2003 06:36:43 pm Post subject: |
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floating-point means the decimal is not fixed
ex:
fp: 5
fixed(4): 5.0000
fp: 5.56
fixed(1): 5.5
integer is npthing more than fix(0) i assume cuz that removes the fractional part |
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yugniht
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| Posted: 04 Aug 2003 10:33:58 pm Post subject: |
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| no, he has to use decimal points because it's the mandelbrot set. In other words, none of it's points that are graphed are greater than two. So, there are many many decimal points. Maybe I'll email the guy. I hope he still uses the same address. |
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Arcane Wizard
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| Posted: 05 Aug 2003 07:24:19 am Post subject: |
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I know how he does that, the integer values don't actually represent the actual coordinates of the pixels, I'll illustrate with some code:
-2->A
2->B
A->Xmin
A->Ymin
B->Xmax
B->Ymax
B-A->E //range
randInt(1,100->C
randInt(1,100->D
pt-On(A+E/C,A+E/D |
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