From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-29 04:08:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Saturated Math Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 07:08:24 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3ED5EA28.2040703@noplace.com> References: <3ECFF541.1010705@attbi.com> <3ED0B820.5050603@noplace.com> <3ED2096F.3020800@noplace.com> <3ED353BE.40605@noplace.com> <3ED4A323.3000909@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b2.9c Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 29 May 2003 11:08:26 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37986 Date: 2003-05-29T11:08:26+00:00 List-Id: Then it doesn't behave like the real world thing I wanted it to model. If you have an actuator that can move between -5.0 inches and +5.0 inches and you try to command it to +5.5 inches, it "saturates" at +5.0. If I start commanding it to +4.0 inches, that's where it starts to go. One can find analogies in other problem domains as well. MDC Robert A Duff wrote: > > It seems to me that a saturating arithmetic ought to "stick" at > infinity. If you say "X + 1000", and that returns the max, then > subtracting 1 from it should return the max, not max-1. Others have > said otherwise, and I wonder why. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire ======================================================================