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13 years ago

integer arithmetic

I'm getting weird results when I do integer division. Frequency is being read in as 60 but the result being stored in var_1b /= 1e9/60 (~1.6E7). Instead the result reported by temp2 is 20522. ...
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13 years ago

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Instead the result reported by temp2 is 20522

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Yes, that's expectable when you cast the divison result to 16 Bit unsigned. :(

At least 24 Bits are needed to hold the result.