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Tcl/Tk question
  • From: Maura Edeweiss Monville <memonvil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 04:11:44 -0500 (CDT)
  • Message-id: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0604110355230.6124@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I apologize for posting a question to the wrong mailing list. I'm relying
on the generosity and understanding of the subscribers.

I've no experience of programming in Tcl language.
Today I was shown the wierd behaviour of a Tcl/Tk GUI and asked to help
fix the following problem.
Basically a parameter representing a scale factor is entered through the
keyboard. If the entered value is less than 10^10 then the program
behaviour is correct. If the entered value exceeds 10^10 then no error is
eturned but the interface behaviour is not correct as the scaling factor
is not correctly applied.

Questions:
1) is there a maximum value that can be represented ?
2) if the answer to 1) is "yes" then is 10^10 the maximum value that can
be stored in a variable ?
3) if the answers to both 1) and 2) is "yes" then is it possible to deal
with values greater than 10^10 ? How ?

Thank you very much for your help.

Maura

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