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How to handle fractional numbers in pic 18 ?

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+pic use scaling to multiply integers

How to handle fractional numbers in pic 18 as it does not have float variable type supported.
 

Hi,

The idea is to multiply all your fractional constants with a scaling factor (powers of 10 to the desired precision), and do all computations on integers. In the last computational step you can scale back the result by a corresponding division (giving you the integral part of the result) and modulus (which gives the decimals, in case you want those too).
You can ensure a proper rounding by adding half of the scaling factor before scaling back the result.
Just make sure your intermediate results don't overflow your chosen data types.

See my answer . You can surely adapt that example to your case.

Arthur
 

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