Annoying Error Message Bug

[George Regateiro]

Could not see where this had been posted before in the old forum so I thought it might save some people time if they hit the error.


I am writing a TI and was doing a division and storing it to the cube. I forgot the basic rules of math and was dividing by zero. The problem was that when I ran the TI it kept telling me that the cell type was consolidated. After bashing my head for awhile I figured it out. Another case of a seemingly completely unrelated error message being generated. Knowing what it was I figured that I would get some sort of invalid type error or something along those lines.

[Alan Kirk]

Could not see where this had been posted before in the old forum so I thought it might save some people time if they hit the error.

I am writing a TI and was doing a division and storing it to the cube. I forgot the basic rules of math and was dividing by zero. The problem was that when I ran the TI it kept telling me that the cell type was consolidated. After bashing my head for awhile I figured it out. Another case of a seemingly completely unrelated error message being generated. Knowing what it was I figured that I would get some sort of invalid type error or something along those lines.

Thanks George, it's always useful to add to the "errors I have seen" database.

I think that this one will be fairly rare since I suspect that most TI writers will use the \ operator rather than the / one, which of course yields 0 rather than an error in a divide by 0 situation. It may not be mathematically correct, but since neither TI nor rules have error handling as such it's certainly one of TM1's more useful little features.

[George Regateiro]

Well I just learned yet another lesson on assuming. I have never worked in a language that implemented such a feature as the division by zero logic(at least that I know of). I never actually opened the Arithmetic Operators page in the help since I had yet to find a case where it was not what I expected it to be.

Thanks Alan