Numbers Like They're Supposed To Be

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Oct 29 2011, 9:31 pm
Whenever I write a long number I get something like this 7.03398e+008 . Yea sure it's a condensed version, I get that but what if I wanted to actually just write a long number?

Thank you. This has been bugging me for so long now.
Oct 29 2011, 9:34 pm
use the num2text proc
Oct 30 2011, 12:25 am
The funny part being, the number they give you is quite a bit bigger than the actual one.
Oct 30 2011, 3:31 am
As ZOMGbies said, use the num2text proc, however I would first recommend trying the search function on the forum, as this question has arrived and been solved many times before.
Nov 1 2011, 8:04 pm
In response to El Wookie
Okay, thanks.
Nov 2 2011, 12:43 pm
In response to Moonlight Memento
What do you mean? It's not changing any numbers.
Nov 2 2011, 2:55 pm
In response to Warlord Fred
When numbers are in the millions, byond outputs them as though a calculator would when youve made a number too wide for the screen.
To combat this you transform the numbers into text and byond treats them like a sentence
Nov 3 2011, 6:25 am
In response to Saucepan Man
It's scientific notation. e means 10, and e+008 would be 10^8, or 100000000. 7.03398e+008 is 703398000.
Nov 3 2011, 3:51 pm
In response to Warlord Fred
It's also a bigger number in text.

1,250,000 is smaller than 1,250,0e+007.
Why does BYOND default to the e+thousands of numbers, anyway? I can't think of a single person who'd actually want that for any form of project.
Nov 4 2011, 2:03 am
In response to Moonlight Memento
Because,

1,250,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
is not shorter than
1,250,0e+034
Nov 4 2011, 11:28 pm
In response to Moonlight Memento
By default, if the number of significant figures exceeds 6, the number will be in scientific notation. If you don't like that, use num2text(1250000,9) so that it won't output a scientific notation unless the number of significant figures exceeds 9.
Nov 5 2011, 12:31 am
In response to El Wookie
El Wookie wrote:
Because,

1,250,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
is not shorter than
1,250,0e+034

That's actually a number, though. I doubt aside from people who took programming classes (which is where I assume you'd see this) would know 1,781,0e+08 actually means something.
Nov 5 2011, 12:34 am
In response to Jemai1
I don't get why it does it at all. No other thing does this, and it's not like it'd really be helpful for anything that I can think of.

Only reason I can think of as to why they can't just default it to an actual number, is that it might break old games.
Nov 5 2011, 6:52 am
In response to Moonlight Memento
It's probably got something to do with the amount of bytes you can contain within an int that BYOND handles. Hence it uses an algebraic formula to reduce the byte size.


I have no clue if this is correct, but it seems logical.
Nov 5 2011, 7:58 am
In response to Moonlight Memento
It's for memory purposes. Once a variable reaches a certain point of taking up too many bytes, BYOND condenses it so that it doesn't use up as much memory.
You could easily work around this problem with a datum and datum mathematical functions.