Date   : Tue, 05 Apr 2005 23:36:10 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: Quick to BBC

"Tom Drage" <drage@...> wrote:
> This is a program someone wrote for QuickBasic.
> 
> DEFDBL A-Z
> Pi = 2  'Starting factor
> FOR i = 2 TO 5000000 STEP 2
>     Pi = Pi * i * i / ((i - 1) * (i + 1))
> NEXT
> PRINT "Pi is approximately:"; Pi
> END
> 
> Would it be possible to convert that to BBC?
 
Exact same thing should do it:
Change DEFDBL A-Z to AUTO, then:
>*Exec M04052212
>:: Area: #0 (BBC-Micro)
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>Message:  1810 (Read 1 time, has 0 replies, 2541 bytes)
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>Date   : Tue Apr  5 22:12:42 2005 +0800
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>From   : "Tom Drage" <drage@...>
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>Subject: Quick to BBC
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>Reply-To: bbc-micro@...
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>Message-ID: <000601c539e9$88157d00$0301010a@...>
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>This is a program someone wrote for QuickBasic.
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>AUTO
   10Pi = 2  'Starting factor
   20FOR i = 2 TO 5000000 STEP 2
   30    Pi = Pi * i * i / ((i - 1) * (i + 1))
   40NEXT
   50PRINT "Pi is approximately:"; Pi
   60END
   70
   80Would it be possible to convert that to BBC?
   90
  100Thanks, Tom.
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Escape
>RUN
Syntax error at line 10
>L.10
   10Pi = 2  'Starting factor
>  10Pi = 2  :REM Starting factor 
>RUN
Pi is approximately:3.1415926
 
 :)
 
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