[A83] Re: 83p os

[A83] Re: 83p os

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• Subject: [A83] Re: 83p os
• From: Max Sikstrom <pengi@molik.org>
• Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 22:10:30 +0200
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:06:31 +0100
"Patai Gergely" <patai_gergely@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> That's why I mentioned 64-bit numbers. They could allow for 19 decimal
> digits using 8 bytes, which would be accurate for 16-17 digits even after
> a long calculation. No wonder that the TIOS itself works with two excess
> digits internally.
> 

Floating point means that there also is a exponent, and when using binary FP, the conversion to decimal is a hard process when the exponent is big. Try for example to convert 1.01001100110b * 10b^11101010b (b indicates that the number is a binary number)


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