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From: rogerc@orca.UUCP (Roger M. Christal)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari8
Subject: Re: Action and Floating Point
Message-ID: <2094@orca.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Jun-86 11:19:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: orca.2094
Posted: Tue Jun 24 11:19:28 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jun-86 00:48:10 EDT
References: <190@sco.UUCP> <349@lll-lcc.UUcp>
Reply-To: rogerc@orca.UUCP (Roger M. Christal)
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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In article <349@lll-lcc.UUcp> langdon@lll-lcc.UUcp (Bruce Langdon) writes:
>OSS sells the Action Toolkit which has FP access by creating a REAL
>data TYPE, and procedures that interface to the ROM. However, each FP
>operation must be a procedure call; you can't say y = a*x+b.
>FP is Action's weakest area.

Well, I personally think there are some areas which are even weaker.
For example, if you have a variable defined as a CARD (unsigned 16-bit
integer) AND that value is larger than 32767, dividing it by any number
greater than 1 will give incorrect results.  Now that's what I call
WEAK (feeble, stupid, etc.) !

  Mugs Away, Mate!
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