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Re: How to detect EOFs in SEQ-files using M/C?



On Mon., 09-Sep-2002, at 12:24am PDT (-0700 GMT), "Matthew Montchalin" wrote:

 >> Since PI is frequently uses and would otherwise take up a lot of space,
 >> Commodore, in a perfectly reasonable move, assigned it to a one-byte token.
 >> That way, instead of saying 100 x=3.14159267, the programmer can save nine
 >> bytes and write 100 x=[pi character] instead.

 >> What's so strange about that???

 > What's strange, is using $ff to represent pi, if memory serves me right.

Your memory serves you perfectly well. What's so strange about $FF (+255)?
It's just a byte value, like any other...

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