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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Conversion from floating point to signed 16 bits
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 15:36:21 -0700 (PDT)
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On May 19, 12:57=A0pm, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
<spam.jrcarter....@nospam.acm.org> wrote:
> Adam Beneschan wrote:
>
> > If your problem is that you're getting a Constraint_Error when the
> > subtraction "U16 - 32768" has a negative result, you can convert U16
> > to some larger integer type before doing the subtraction:
>
> That wouldn't happen as written because the subtraction would use the bas=
e type,
> which is symmetrical (more or less) around zero.

Ah, yes---brain freeze on my part.  In that case, I'm with you... the
code originally posted looks just fine to me.

                                  -- Adam