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lacuna
Impressive examples for struct patches:
https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/10756/vanilla-struct-multislider-with-jump-on-click-and-drag@Balwyn
https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/14009/hide-array-name/14
https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/14037/plot-graph-a-way-to-display-waveforms
Here is a workshop on data structures from some years ago (things might have changed in the meantime, but I don't know). Unfortunately the workshop-patches are not online, but you might ask João in the Pd-mailinglist.
https://media.ccc.de/v/lac2018-26-understanding_and_being_creative_with_pure_data_s_data_structures#t=1633
I am interested in how to pipe data from Pd to a fully equipped plotting-software?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17543386/pipe-plot-data-to-gnuplot-scripthttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/33457750/gnuplot-plotting-using-piped-input
@katjav https://www.katjaas.nl/plot/plot.html
(all of this is on my undone-list)
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lacuna
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or [text get] instead of [array get] or [tabread] instead of list-drip .... -
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lacuna
okok wasn't sure if my "as being said" sounded arrogant ... allright!
On the question, how to calculate exact: As far as I understand (not): Fixed point arithmetic can be exact but has no headroom.
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lacuna
@jameslo I'm not a native speaker, no offense intended.
Just was hoping, we would overcome those (non)issues, making courageous decisions or find some better workaround/patch/fix.
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lacuna
@jameslo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic#Representable_numbers,_conversion_and_rounding"[...] Any rational with a denominator that has a prime factor other than 2 will have an infinite binary expansion. This means that numbers that appear to be short and exact when written in decimal format may need to be approximated when converted to binary floating-point. For example, the decimal number 0.1 is not representable in binary floating-point of any finite precision; the exact binary representation would have a "1100" sequence continuing endlessly:
e = −4; s = 1100110011001100110011001100110011...,
where, as previously, s is the significand and e is the exponent.
When rounded to 24 bits this becomes
e = −4; s = 110011001100110011001101,
which is actually 0.100000001490116119384765625 in decimal. [...]"
And as being said here about SC and Arduino, and on the mailling-list on Max or JSON: Pd is not the only user-friendly (scripting/patching) language/environment that had to deal with this.
Althought backward-compabillity is the most precious thing
and long-term maintaince would become more complicated if PD single and double would differ in such an elementary part, my vote goes for more Pd64 developement, if I had a voice.But for now, it seems like there are several easy experimental improvements, already doable when self-compiling Pd64!?
%.14lg mentioned by @katjav
https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2012-04/095940.html
or that
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2952880&group_id=55736&atid=478072Also we could have a look (for %.14lg
) in the code of Katja's Pd-double, and Pd-Spagetties is double, too. (dev stopped, I never tried this)
@jancsika Is Purr-Data double now? https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/11494/purr-data-double-precision I don't know if or how they care about printing and saving. -
lacuna
yes
12 years ago:
[PD] why does PD round numbers? (in tables, in messageboxes, etc)
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@alexandros said:
[3.14\ <- this is a symbol (Ctl+4) | [f ] | [3.14\ <- this is a number atom (Ctl+3)
Since 0.5? shortcut ctrl+4 has been replaced by the new list-box. Symbol-box has no shortcut anymore, it's still in the 'put-menu'.
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lacuna
mmmh that's bad news.
@jameslo do you know these threads? Maybe they help:
https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/13710/how-to-calculate-with-higher-precision/5
https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/709/symbol-to-float-conversion/17
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