Craig, With an insanely large number of "#" in number format I can get this to work: 1234567890123e-10 * 1e-170. I get the result: 1.2345678901230e-168.
It appears that there is a bit more going on as they are floating point values. Thanks, John On Jun 23, 2013, at 7:35 PM, Craig Newman <[email protected]> wrote: > I may be old fashioned, in that I always thought that the Apple SANE limits, > 19 digits, was still the law of the land. This is OS9 stuff, though and I > could just be doddering. But it would mean that setting the number format to > such an outrageous string would be futile, most of that string ignored by the > OS. But I could be wrong. > > Craig Newman > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 23, 2013, at 10:20 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It seems odd that I haven't stumbled into this before and I am sure I am >> doing something wrong, I just can't seem to find a better way around the >> issue of working with small numbers. >> >> Suppose I want to multiply two small numbers such as: 1.23456e-41 * 1e-20. >> Unless I am happy with a result of 0, I have to use a really odd >> numberFormat statement such as: >> >> set the numberformat to "0.##########...############" where " …" represents >> sixty or so '#' >> >> This seems really odd. Surely there is a better way to do this. Can >> someone help? >> >> Thanks, >> John >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
