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Re: Progress Halted (Celtic III bug)
« Reply #15 on: February 27, 2009, 10:32:43 pm »
Wow... I just fixed it by doing one of the things you're never supposed to do.
I removed the battery while it was ON.

Weird... well, problem solved.

Lesson learned:
Don't use decimals in the real(5) command. Ever.
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Re: Progress Halted (Celtic III bug)
« Reply #16 on: March 03, 2009, 01:22:03 pm »
I'm glad it's fixed, just continue to backup often though. I wish TI calcs were like Casio calculators when running basic in the way that removing a battery during execution will not delete the RAM.
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Re: Progress Halted (Celtic III bug)
« Reply #17 on: March 03, 2009, 02:47:11 pm »
Just caught this thread.

I'm sorry to hear that there are problems with Celtic III and how it parses its input. I *do* know that there are provisions in the code to strip out the decimal part of its input but there are no known provisions to parse anything abs(x)<0, if that's what you're trying to do.

Also, as far as the inputs for real(5) does, I'm looking at the source right now and I don't see any checks for invalid input. It expects the input to be correct. An addition of 2 bytes worth of code may resolve the issue, but I still don't support correcting mistakes caused by improper inputs, then hiding it from the user.
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Re: Progress Halted (Celtic III bug)
« Reply #18 on: March 04, 2009, 07:57:57 am »
Quote from: Iambian on March 03, 2009, 02:47:11 pm
Just caught this thread.

I'm sorry to hear that there are problems with Celtic III and how it parses its input. I *do* know that there are provisions in the code to strip out the decimal part of its input but there are no known provisions to parse anything abs(x)<0, if that's what you're trying to do.

Also, as far as the inputs for real(5) does, I'm looking at the source right now and I don't see any checks for invalid input. It expects the input to be correct. An addition of 2 bytes worth of code may resolve the issue, but I still don't support correcting mistakes caused by improper inputs, then hiding it from the user.

No problem, mate. I don't blame you...
I was having an off day and really should have known something like that would happen.

It's all fixed now though, so no worries even more.
I learned something new from it. =P
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