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#X text 111 18 - STORE A FLOATING POINT NUMBER - abbreviation:;
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#X text 113 484 doc/2.control.examples/sendnumber.pd;
#X text 371 358 Tip: Shift+drag;
#X text 37 44 INLETS:;
#X text 37 59 - LEFT:;
#X text 104 59 Float - A float at the left inlet will update the stored
value of the object and will send the number immediately to the outlet.
;
#X text 104 114 Bang - A bang at the left inlet will force [float]
to send its value to the outlet.;
#X text 104 152 List - A list at the left inlet will be truncated to
include only the first element. The first element in the list will
update the stored value of the object and will send the number immediately
to the outlet.;
#X text 29 220 - RIGHT:;
#X text 105 220 Float - A float at the right inlet is stored for later
use. It will be sent to the left outlet when a float or bang is received
in the left inlet.;
#X text 29 324 OUTLETS:;
#X text 13 272 ARGUMENTS:;
#X text 20 354 EXAMPLES:;
#X text 22 484 SEE ALSO:;
#X text 104 272 One - [float] accepts a single float as a creation
argument which initializes the first value to be sent out the left
outlet.;
#X text 104 325 One - outputs the stored floating point value of the
object.;
#X text 249 384 lists;
#X text 106 355 creation argument;
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#X text 25 11 Native PD Objects;
#X text 23 92 Externals and other object libraries;
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#X text 36 126 [randomF];
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#X text 43 24 All numbers in PD are kept in 32-bit floating point and
can represent real numbers between -8 \, 388608 and 8.388.608.00;
#X text 11 78 WHAT IS A FLOATING POINT NUMBER?;
#X text 41 267 The following are examples of floating point numbers:
;
#X text 61 293 3;
#X text 62 334 -111.5;
#X text 61 313 0.5;
#X text 40 387 3e-005 : This example is a computer shorthand for scientific
notation. It means 3*10-5 (or 10 to the negative 5th power multiplied
by 3).;
#X text 41 108 According to Webopedia.com \, "computers are integer
machines and are capable of representing real numbers only by using
complex codes." Hence \, real numbers must be 'approximated' by computers
using the "floating point standard". In such a number \, the decimal
point can "float" meaning that there is no fixed number of digits preceding
or following the decimal. A floating point number is therefore a computer's
approximation of a real number.;
#X text 43 453 Interesting side-note: In the early 1990's \, the Intel
80486 was shipped with a math coprocessor to help accelerate the process
of computing floating point numbers (which previously required a considerable
amount of CPU power.) Math coprocessors have since found there way
into nearly every graphics card and CPU available today.;
#X text 62 358 10000 to 1e-016;
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#X text 158 561 - Dave Sabine \, November 18 \, 2002;
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