How to fake floating point?

[RPC]

Basically, the Advanced Long Range scanner here has issues displaying things at fractions of angles (say, 81.3 degrees). Is there any way to feed a number into Trans so that it does display at decimal angles?
Is there another way?

[Jeoshua]

There is no way to do anything with floating points.

However, fixed point is a possibility. Start by multiplying the data you wish to deal with by some number, maybe 100, maybe 1000, maybe 10,000. Then, do math in this higher resolution. When you wish to display or use that data, you can get the modulo of the data in some other more usable value, and then keep the remainder stored for the next turn.

I used a technique like this in the code for the Singularity Proof of Concept. Look at the code for it (although, it's really out of date and likely doesn't work on the current version).

[RPC]

You're Alive!!!!!! (go to IRC sometime will you?)
Sweet, didn't think of the higher resolution.

[Star Weaver]

Arbitrary point should be possible with decimal strings, but the processing would be slow as hell. Also, trying to make this work might have been part of what drove me away from modding the first time ...