Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!apple!mdtaylor From: mdtaylor@Apple.COM (Mark David Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Why can't the Mac add? Message-ID: <10591@goofy.Apple.COM> Date: 5 Oct 90 22:33:13 GMT Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 7 I don't know much about SANE, but I would guess that what the original poster is actually looking for is the fixed-point arithmetic type, described on pages I-79 and I-467 of Inside Macintosh. I don't think SANE has a special feature to detect endless repeating binary representations of numbers. - Mark