Bug? Wrong value of variable

[obscure]

Hi there!

Consider the following lines of code:
Dim subtract As Long=90*24*60*60*1000
Log(subtract)

This will output: -813934592

If I do it like this:
Dim subtract2 As Long=90*24*60*60
subtract2=subtract2*1000

I get the correct value of 7776000000.
Why is that?

regards,
obscure

 

[Erel]

When your calculations are done with Ints then the result will also be an integer (unless there is a division which will return a Double result). So you need to explicitly set one of the numbers to Long.

 

[aarondc]

Would this work?

Dim subtract2 As Long=90*24*60*60.0

 

[Erel]

Not exactly. The calculation will be done with Doubles. The result in this case will be correct however there might be cases where the result is inaccurate as not all long values can be represented accurately with a double.

 

[obscure]

Hi Erel.

Thanks for the insight!

cheers,
obscure