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From: xtdn@levels.sait.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ccpu
Message-ID: <16234.28132e4f@levels.sait.edu.au>
Date: 22 Apr 91 09:11:19 GMT
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trs@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Thomas R. Statnick) writes:
> In article <16226.280f85ed@levels.sait.edu.au> xtdn@levels.sait.edu.au writes:
>>Ray.Moody@Cray.Com writes:
>>> It is unusual in that it is one of the very few floating point numbers in
>>> the kernel.
>>
>>Or did you mean that ccpu is one of the few floating point constants in
>>the kernel?
>
>    If you read the last sentence of what Ray said, that is *exactly* what
> he *is* saying.

Oops.  Sorry all, I misinterpreted the word "number" as including variables
(and perhaps functions, too).  My mistake.


David Newall, 16:32:56.04, Tuesday, 1991     Phone:  +61 8 344 2008
"Life is uncertain: Eat dessert first"       E-mail: xtdn@lux.sait.edu.au