Bitwise shr right

[Former user]

W10 fully updated, v 0.12

Hi,

As installed, F6, binary output. Calculate 1/100. This give expected result. = 0b0.0000001010001111011 I wish now to "move the decimal point" six places to the right. shr(ans;6) gives compile error.

[Helder Correia]

Current development version yields 0 instead of compile error.

[Helder Correia]

BTW, shr() does not move the decimal point as you intend.

[Tey']

We should probably add a note in the manual indicating that bitwise functions only work on integers.

As a workaround, shr/shl does the same as dividing/multiplying by a power of 2, so you can move the decimal point that way (ans * 2**6). And as @heldercorreia indicated, you should have used shl for what you want (but it only works on integers anyway).