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 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 10-29-92 (21:37)             Number: 322
From: RICK PEDLEY                  Refer#: NONE
  To: WARREN SCHREY                 Recvd: NO  
Subj: hm.                            Conf: (2) Quik_Bas

 On 10-26-92 Warren Schrey wrote to All...

 WS> Why does this work?
 WS>
 WS> --clipit--
 WS>
 WS> A#=100
 WS> B#=533

 WS> C#=8
 WS>
 WS> D&=A#*B#*C#
 WS>
 WS> --clipit--
 WS>
 WS> where this
 WS>
 WS> --clipit--
 WS>
 WS> D&=100*533*8
 WS>
 WS> <Overflow Error>
 WS>
 WS> --clipit--
 WS>
 WS> doesn't?  It seems that QB won't let me insert anything
 WS> beyond the 32767 or -32768 limits using direct numbers as
 WS> in my second clip...
 WS>
 WS> Is this a bug, an undocumented feature, or just another of
 WS> those annoyances? :-)

It's because when calculations are done on the right side of the
equation, QB stores the intermediate results in whatever type
the factors are in; in other words, it interprets 100, 533, and
8 as being single (2-byte) integers, and then attempts to store
the product as an integer, resulting in an overflow error if
it is out of range.  In the first example, you have specified
the type of each factor, and intermediate results are stored
in the same type.  You can also do this if you want to avoid
using variables:  D& = 100& * 533& * 8&


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