Tip: Use Doubles for time ratios

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Grey Alien

I've been fiddling with my Fixed Rate Logic code and realised that the floats I was using to return a delta value were totally imprecise for the job when the millisecs counter is quite high, so changed to doubles and now it works lush. Plus I also found a potential problem with the rounding of consts even if you typecast them as doubles!

see this:

Print "" 'blankline

time = MilliSecs()
Print "millisecs="+time

myfloat# = time/5.0
Print "float ="+myfloat

mydouble:Double = time/5.0
Print "double="+mydouble

Const MyConst = 43251254
Print "const =" + Double(MyConst/5.0)

Print "direct=" + Double(43251254/5.0)

MyInt = 43251254
Print "Int   =" + Double(MyInt/5.0)

- Code shows that float doesn't give precise enough value when dividing millisecs()
- Code shows that constants or direct constants passed into the equation round!
- Code shows that ints passed into the equation work as expected.

Wonder if this a bug with Constants?

This sort of ifo is very useful for delta timing and 3D apps and physics simulations etc.