[A83] Re: 83p os

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Subject: [A83] Re: 83p os
From: "Patai Gergely" <patai_gergely@fastmail.fm>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 22:40:35 +0100
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> 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)
I was talking about integer arithmetic, which might be fixed point as
well. Floating point is a different business, but I'm sure that there are
good solutions to this problem we're not aware of.

PG

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