Hello Miles.

09 Aug 04 04:58, you wrote to David Williams:

 MM> G'morning David,

 DW>> Incidentally, the "S - 1 OR 1" expression finds the
greatest ODD
 DW>> number that is less than or equal to S. I think that's about the
 DW>> easiest way to do it.

 MM> Neat !

 DW>> Here's the latest. Not many changes.

 MM> Unfortunately, my quick timer addition uses time$ which does not
 MM> report parts of seconds;  this version still clocks in at 4
 MM> seconds here...

the floating point value "timer" is accurate to about 1/18 of a second

at the start:  T! = timer

at the end:    print  "elapssed:"; timer - T! ;"seconds"

more precision that that is dificult in interpreted basic, but in C I have
timer code accurate to better than 1 microsecond (by reading the registers
of the timer chip).

Jasen

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