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Re: What is this?


  • Subject: Re: What is this?
  • From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:40:58 -0700

At 16:07 -0500 2/26/05, deivy petrescu wrote:
>return {zpow, AppleScript's text item delimiters, x as string}
>--->{3.08055323620131E-306, "", "9"}

I'm betting that AppleScript is pointing to a 32 bit integer where the 9 is stored and whatever 32 bit word happens to follow. The 64 bit concatenation is being treated as a float.

That would explain the large negative exponents. The 11 bit characteristic part of the float is zero.

It might have to do with Apple's insistence that something like 2^29 is an arbitrary size limit for integers.

Where are class float, class integer, class complex and the like?
--

Applescript syntax is like English spelling:
Roughly, but not thoroughly, thought through.
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