Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!rwthinf!cip-s02!stefanb From: stefanb@cip-s02.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Becker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Maple V news for Amiga Message-ID: Date: 11 Nov 90 22:44:13 GMT References: <3760@mindlink.UUCP> <15580@brahms.udel.edu> Sender: news@rwthinf.UUCP Lines: 15 don@brahms.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) writes: > I seem to remember hearing that under 2.0 the floating point libraries >would be able to detect the presence of an 881/882 and use it if it's there. >(Or is this one specific fp library?). If this is true, and 2.0 actually >starts shipping soon, Maple will have 881 support whether they like it or not. A Mapel programmer told me that it doesn't use ANY floating point numbers. All math is done with fractions of two integer numbers. Stefan Mail : Stefan Becker, Holsteinstrasse 9, W-5100 Aachen /// Only Phone : +49-241-505705 FIDO: 2:242/7.6 Germany /// Amiga makes Domain: stefanb@cip-s02.informatik.rwth-aachen.de \\\/// it possible.. Bang : ..mcvax!unido!rwthinf!cip-s02!stefanb \XX/ -->A3000/25<--