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Re: integer division

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Originally Posted by sciguy125
The more efficient way (because floating point takes more processor instructions) would be to multiply everything by some factor of 10. ie, your 2/1000 would be 2 if you multiplied everything that uses that number by 1000.
This is precisely how the code works. Those variables aren't in units of seconds, but in timer ticks. Each tick counts as 100 ns of elapsed time.

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