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From: jaz@icd.ab.com (Jack A. Zucker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.object
Subject: Re: Integer / Float arithmetic in ST80 (Some benchmarks)
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Date: 12 Jun 91 12:43:05 GMT
References: <1991Jun5.185120.8104@bqnes74.bnr.ca> <1991Jun11.175540.4836@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
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In article <1991Jun11.175540.4836@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>,
klimas@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes:
|> In article <1991Jun5.185120.8104@bqnes74.bnr.ca>, CWatts@BNR.CA (Carl
Watts) writes:
|> 
|> > You definitely want:
|> > | a |
|> > a := 1.
|> > 2499 timesRepeat: [a := (a*a) sqrt ln exp arcTan tan + 1]
|> My copy of ST-80 for Windows won't handle this expression but Digitalk does!
|> Give me an expression that you've checked first and I'll be glad to rerun it
|> on the other dialects.
|> 

This expression worked just fine on my copy of ST-80 for Windows.

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