On Monday 27 September 2004 17:50, Karri Kaksonen wrote: > I just want to add my comments to the discussion about floating point. > It would be nice to be able to calculate ranges around -1.0 to 1.0 with > decent accuracy for doing matrix stuff. > > In the early days I used a routine called FRACMUL quite a lot. Basically > it represents just the 16 bit mantissa. [snip] what you describe is fixed-point math, and exactly _not_ what floats are :=P if you need fixed point, use a bunch of macros or a fixed point lib....this shouldnt be supported by a non standard "fixedpoint" or even worse a non standard float type imho. gpz ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.Received on Mon Sep 27 17:55:08 2004
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