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From: root@cca.ucsf.edu (Systems Staff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Spreadsheet
Summary: Sc6.8 (the recent comp.sources.unix spreadsheet uses double
	 precision floating point.
Message-ID: <3156@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Date: 18 Sep 90 01:09:31 GMT
References: <7473@star.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Computer Center, UCSF
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In article <7473@star.cs.vu.nl>, ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
> 
> There was a spreadsheet program posted to comp.sources.unix recently.
> If there is anyone who is interested in spreadsheets, how about taking a
> look at it and seeing if it can be ported to MINIX.  

The referenced spreadsheet program, sc6.8, uses double precision
floating point for its calculations. How's the F.P. in the Minix
compiler these days?

The following is extracted from the sc6.8 documentation files:

>  .SS "Built-in Numeric Functions"
>  .\" ----------
>  All of these functions operate on floating point numbers (doubles)
>  and return numeric values.
>  Most of them are standard system functions more fully described in
>  .IR math (3).
>  The trig functions operate with angles in radians.

Scanning the source for "double" produced 129 occurrences.

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