Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/09/11/06:00:29
Nathaniel Johnson wrote:
> fixed point is a special floating point that was made for speed... it
> uses
> a 32 bit number to make up a float 16.16
That, of course, makes it not floating point. Fixed point and floating
point both represent (approximations of) real numbers, but neither are
subsets of the other. They both have different strengths, and different
limitations.
--
Erik Max Francis / email max AT alcyone DOT com / whois mf303 / icq 16063900
Alcyone Systems / irc maxxon (efnet) / finger max AT sade DOT alcyone DOT com
San Jose, CA / languages En, Eo / web http://www.alcyone.com/max/
USA / icbm 37 20 07 N 121 53 38 W / &tSftDotIotE
\
/ Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?
/ Rainer Maria Rilke
- Raw text -