Thread: Check Values within a range

I am running a program that calculates heat dissipation of heat copper sphere and I need to run the calculations until the temperature of the sphere is within .1, that is either +.1 or -.1 of a set safe temperature. I have no problems getting my program to loop to find the correct temperature values. I just can't seem to find the correct test to get the loop to stop. If you have any suggestions please let me know. I uploaded the file

Without reading the code, "distance from" is generally given by "fabs". So fabs(temperature-5) or whatever is what you would want to check.

I want to test for both the upper and lower limit. So taking the absolute value will not work. I need to see if my calculated value is within the range. Like this 24.9<calc_temp<25.1

There needs to be two if statements to check this:

Code:

if (this && that) { printf("in range\n"); }

What can you say about calc_temp and your range that will satisfy this and that?

Think.

My if test currently reads
if(temp>=safe_temp-.0999 && temp<=safe_temp+.0999)
test=1;
else
test=0;

I have a while loop that will stop if test==1, but it doesn't stop when I want it to.

Originally Posted by ianrice

I want to test for both the upper and lower limit. So taking the absolute value will not work. I need to see if my calculated value is within the range. Like this 24.9<calc_temp<25.1

Which is exactly what I said. fabs(calc_temp-25) < 0.1 (i.e., "the distance from calc_temp to 25 needs to be less than 0.1").