Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range.

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From	Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject	Re: Best search algorithm to find a condition within a range.
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jonas.thornvall@gmail.com writes:

> Den tisdag 7 april 2015 kl. 14:27:36 UTC+2 skrev Ben Bacarisse:
>> jonas.thornvall@gmail.com writes:
<snip>
>> > <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript"> 
>> > //CONVERT A DECIMAL NUMBER INTO ANYBASE 
>> > function newbase(decNumber,base){ 
>> 
>> Your terms are wrong, and I don't think this is just a trivial detail --
>> I think maybe it points to something you've misunderstood.  The value in
>> "decNumber" is not decimal -- it's just a number.  Internally it is
>> represented in a very well-defined format that uses binary for both a
>> fraction and an exponent, but you don't need to care about that.  You
>> just want to do arithmetic on it.
<snip>

> Regarding the terms what terms is wrong?
> There ain't no other name for decimal number then a decimal encoded
> number.

There was no hint in the code that the variable named decNumber held
anything other than an ECMAScript value of type Number.  The code did
arithmetic on it using ECMAScript's built in operators that work on
Number values.  In what sense do you think (or, more to the point, care)
that it is "decimal"?

<snip>
-- 
Ben.

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