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31 Jul 2024 02:19:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Problems with iterations  
From: John VanSickle
Date: 10 Jan 2008 15:46:21
Message: <4786841d$1@news.povray.org>
SharkD wrote:
> "SharkD" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>> Check out this test scene:
>>
>> #local i = 0;
>> #local numerator = 1;
>> #local divisor = 6;
>> #while(i < numerator)
>>  #local i = i + numerator/divisor;
>>  #debug concat("i = ", str(i, 0, -1),"\n")
>> #end
>>
>> Shouldn't the iterations stop when i = 1? What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Just to be clear, the last entry printed to the Messages panel is "i =
> 1.166667".

Change it to this:

#local i = 0;
#local numerator = 1;
#local divisor = 6;
#while(i < numerator)
   #debug concat("i = ", str(i, 0, -1),"\n")
   #local i = i + numerator/divisor;
#end

and it will end before reporting i>=0.

Regards,
John


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