what-is-maximum-count-of

Eventually yes. You might have some time though Max 6 uses 

Eventually yes. You might have some time though Max 6 uses double.


so what's the trick (except using Gen) to use it in this :

(if I use the send~-receive~ trick it doesn't work as expected, maybe because of the delay)

ha ok.
so what's the trick (except using Gen) to use it in this :
(if I use the send~-receive~ trick it doesn't work as expected, maybe because of the delay)


You can use the set message to specify a value.

Actually, if you keep on adding one to a floating point value, you'll never get to the maximum value.

To keep the numbers simple, look at 32-bit floating point. The largest positive 32-bit fp value is 2^127 (about 1,700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000). But since you only have 24 bits of precision (mantissa), once you get to 2^24 (16,777,216), adding one will get "lost" because it's outside the precision supported by the floating-point representation. (The same thing happens with 64-bit, it just takes a bit longer.)

Whether or not this is a "problem" depends on what you're trying to do. In the case of your patch, with a 4-Hz cycle~ driving xerox~, it would take a while before you hit the situation (three months?) Longer in 64-bit mode.

EDIT: Fixed some arithmetic mistakes. Hopefully. I sometimes lose track of zeros.-(

Actually, if you keep on adding one to a floating point value, you'll never get to the maximum value. 

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EDIT: Fixed some arithmetic mistakes. Hopefully. I sometimes lose track of zeros.-(


thx a lot. my example was with 4Hz cycle~, but the goal is to make a kind of "zero crossing gate". adding a [%~] solved the problem (even it's not really accurate because of the aleatory resetting) and I made a Gen~ accurate version too.

what is maximum count of [=+~] ?