Quote from: c4ooo on August 17, 2017, 02:15:48 PMQuote from: Juju on August 17, 2017, 05:22:51 AMYep. In a float, the first byte is almost always a signed exponent, so as long as it is >=0 its an integer (unless I got something mixed up). This should be useful if someone does the challenge in assembly.
Depending of the language you use, it is possible to check if your integer is an integer. As in, you can cast your float into an int, if it didn't lost information it's an integer.
thats not true, because the mantissa (other part of the float) is a fraction part: (1/16 + 1/8)*2^3 is 1.5, but it still has a positive exponent.
Instead you could check if the mantissa is clone enough to zero: if its smaller than 0.00001 for example is probably an integer. I think most is_integer() functions will work this way.
My solution actually uses this:
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#define mainImage(O, U)O+=sign(fract(length(U-.5)))O is the output color, U is the input coodinate plus 0.5. length() is just sqrt(U.x*U.x + U.y*U.y).
fract takes the fraction part of the float (the mantissa). Sign(x) returns -1 if x < 0, 0 if x == 0 and 1 if x >0. I think the sign function internally also compares x to some small value.
. I dont think i ever pushed it though...
