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Subject: Does the 48sx use BCD? (Was: Re: How accurate is the 48??)
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Date: 22 May 91 03:18:14 GMT
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In article <1991May21.120147.4627@saaf.se> pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) writes:
>Of course.  THis is a limitation inherent in using BCD representaion for
>floating-point numbers.  1/3 is 0.33333333....... infinetley, so it must
>be rounded off somewhere.  Suppose we round off after 12 digits:
>0.333333333333   Now we want to multiply this with 3 - the answer to this
>IS 0.999999999999 to 12 decimal places.
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Are you saying that the 48sx uses BCD? (I posted an article previously asking
about floating point radix base and no one answered...)

I need to know because I'm translating some code from Numerical Recipes.

>Paul Schlyter, Swedish Amateur Astronomer's Society (SAAF)
>InterNet:  pausch@saaf.se
>FidoNet:   2:201/600.2

George