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CR200/CR200X Series Dataloggers - Campbell Scientific

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Section 9. Programming<br />

Read More! More information is available in CRBASIC Editor Help topic<br />

"Multipliers and Offsets with Repetitions".<br />

9.10 Expressions<br />

An expression is a series of words, operators, or numbers that produce a value<br />

or result. Expressions are evaluated expression from left to right, with deference<br />

to precedence rules.<br />

Two types of expressions, mathematical and programming, are used in<br />

CRBASIC. A useful property of expressions in CRBASIC is that they are<br />

equivalent to and often interchangeable with their results.<br />

Consider the expressions:<br />

x = (z * 1.8) + 32 (a mathematical expression)<br />

If x = 23 then y = 5 (programming expression)<br />

The variable x can be omitted and the expressions combined and written as:<br />

If (z * 1.8 + 32 = 23) then y = 5<br />

Replacing the result with the expression should be done judiciously and with the<br />

realization that doing so may make program code more difficult to decipher.<br />

9.10.1 Floating Point Arithmetic<br />

Variables and calculations are performed internally in single precision IEEE4 4-<br />

byte floating point, a binary format.<br />

Floating point arithmetic is common in many electronic computational systems,<br />

but it has pitfalls high-level programmers should be aware of. Several sources<br />

discuss floating point arithmetic thoroughly. One readily available source is the<br />

topic "Floating Point" at Wikipedia.org. In summary, <strong>CR200</strong>(X) programmers<br />

should consider at least the following:<br />

• Floating point numbers do not perfectly mimic real numbers.<br />

• Floating point arithmetic does not perfectly mimic true arithmetic.<br />

• Avoid use of equality in conditional statements. Use >= and

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