From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Dividing dimensions
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:13:07 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0903212212260.13753@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090322000252.GU14844@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl>
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> Dnia Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 06:08:41PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan napisał(a):
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can I divide dimensions to get a number in pdftex?
>>
>> I have four dimensions \!!dimena, \!!dimenb, \!!dimenc and \!!dimend, and
>> I want
>>
>> if (dimena/dimenb) > (dimenc/dimend)
>> do something
>> else
>> do otherthing
>
> What about
>
> if (dimena*dimend) > (dimenc*dimenb) ... ?
>
> If dimenb and dimend are positive, this should be equivalent (assuming
> you don't run into overflow).
I tried that, but that leads to overflow.
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-22 2:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-21 22:08 Aditya Mahajan
2009-03-21 22:26 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2009-03-21 22:41 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-21 22:49 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-03-21 23:00 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-23 7:15 ` Alan BRASLAU
2009-03-23 11:35 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2009-03-23 12:12 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-23 12:22 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2009-03-23 23:27 ` Alan BRASLAU
2009-03-24 6:51 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-03-24 7:07 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-22 8:38 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-22 0:02 ` Marcin Borkowski
2009-03-22 2:13 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2009-03-22 9:41 ` Hans Hagen
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