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From: mills@baloo.eng.ohio-state.edu (Christopher Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: C question
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Date: 11 Oct 88 03:08:37 GMT
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In article <56733UH2@PSUVM> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:

>	[ Why do these give different answers using FFP ]

>     r1 = 1.0/(double)INT_MAX

	Lattice can do this at compile time, and probably uses double
precision.

>     double im = INT_MAX;
>     r2 = 1.0/im;

	Latice dose this at runtime using FFP and gets a different answer
due to roundoff.  (at least that's my guess...)
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