Negative Help!

Commander_Bob

I have been trying to get my 3 Axis accelerometer to work with positive and negative numbers and use commands like > or < but if I do something like 1 > -1 it says false and when I use debug it says -1 = 65535. How can I make the BS2 know it is a negative number and use this code?

IF··Gforce < -110 THEN
HIGH 3
ELSE
LOW 3
ENDIF

Thanks

Mike Green

The Stamp's native arithmetic is unsigned 16-bit. Addition and subtraction work with signed or unsigned numbers, but greater and less than are backwards. For your example, you could try:

if (Gforce < 0) and (abs(Gforce) > 110) then
   high 3
else
   low 3
endif

metron9

Some additional negative number information.

gforce VAR Word

FOR gforce= 32758 TO 32778
 DEBUG DEC gforce," =  "
 IF gforce>32768 THEN DEBUG "-" ELSE DEBUG "+"
 DEBUG DEC ABS(gforce),CR
NEXT

The numbers in a word variable range from 0 to 65535. When you want to think about negative numbers using a word variable you split the 65535 in half. You then have 32768 positive numbers and 32768 negative numbers. Remember zero is one of the positive numbers so really 65536/2 so the range is 0 thru 32767 positive and 32768 thru 65535 represent negative numbers.

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Commander_Bob

Thanks. I tried this and it works too.

sign = zg.BIT15


IF (sign = 0) AND (ABS(zg) > 0) THEN
HIGH 3
ELSE
LOW 3
ENDIF

Mike Green

Yes, your statement is true for numbers from 1 to 32767 and false for zero and negative numbers.