Re: What is this?
Re: What is this?
- Subject: Re: What is this?
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:34:23 -0700
OS 9.1, SE 1.8.3
1 * (item 2 of "2048") --> 0
1 * (item 2 of "4096") --> 0
1 * (item 2 of "8192") --> 1
1 * (item 2 of "16384") --> 6
1 * (item 2 of "32768") --> 2
1 * (item 2 of "49152") --> 9
1 * (item 2 of "65536") --> 5
1 * (item 2 of (2 ^ 13 as text)) --> 1
set alist to {}
repeat with jill from 10 to 16
set res to 1 * (item 2 of (2 ^ jill as text))
set alist to alist & res
end repeat
list
--> "Cant make "." into a number"
Sigh
set alist to {}
repeat with jill from 1 to 32
set res to 1 * (item 2 of ((jill * (2 ^ 13)) as text))
set alist to alist & res
end repeat
--> {1, 6, 4, 2, 0, 9, 7, 5, 3, 1, 0, 8, 0, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9, 0, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}
But there seems to be something magic about 2^12 and that matches up pretty well with a bad interpretation of an IEEE float with an 11 bit exponent biased by 2048. Is item 2 perhaps the exponent or something incorrectly perceived as such?
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