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Re: BIG Numbers
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Re: BIG Numbers

  • Subject: Re: BIG Numbers
  • From: cris <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 01:41:01 +0100
on 12.11.2000 15:26 Uhr, Jeff Benjamin at email@hidden wrote:

> How big can numbers get when using integers and math w/applescript?
>
> I need to add up bytes in files until I have enough to burn to a DVD.
There is a bug in AS, so you can read/write files "only" up to 512 MB.
Try the following two statements in an editor, see the results and you see
what the problem is:

536870911 + 0
--> 536870911
536870911 + 1
--> -536870912

According to Chris Nebel this will be fixes in the next version of AS.



Greetings
cris

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