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#1 2009-01-19 22:11:52
actual # not ____E__
on http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/726961/385614 when the variable seconds gets to a very high point, it atomaticly goes to 1.12E9 or something around there. but this does not happen in presentation mode. This to me can be very annoying. since my project is about exactness. So just sayin...
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#2 2009-01-20 13:08:16
- yambanshee
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Re: actual # not ____E__
the E means X*10to the power of Y. this is called standard fourm. Basicly instead f, lets say 12,000,000 it is turned into 1.2*10 to the power of 7 or 1.2*10^7 or 1.2E7. Or something like 0.00005 is the same as 5*10^-5. You'll learn more about it in maths ( im doing it at the moment)
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#3 2009-01-20 15:44:42
Re: actual # not ____E__
Eventually, the variable would become too big a number to display, so they did that to make the number more likely to fit. However, as I have seen, this is prone to confuse many people.
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#4 2009-01-20 21:24:37
Re: actual # not ____E__
yambanshee wrote:
im doing it at the moment
I did it last year in math (duh, where else) but is there some way to prevent it? like to script it a certian way?
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#5 2009-01-20 22:54:27
- yambanshee
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Re: actual # not ____E__
i guess you could have 2 variables then, one for the first couple of nums, and another for the second bunch
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#6 2009-01-20 23:50:38
- AlanProjects
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Re: actual # not ____E__
726961 wrote:
yambanshee wrote:
im doing it at the moment
I did it last year in math (duh, where else) but is there some way to prevent it? like to script it a certian way?
In an array. numbers don't get shortened in an array, but its a little harder to do.
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