From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 18:43:13 GMT, dontmailme AT iname DOT com (Steamer)
wrote:

>In fact, depending on
>what you're doing, it may be better not to use floating-point
>numbers at all - just use suitably scaled integers.

In fact, that's all "fixed point math" is: suitably scaled integers.
For example, the popular Allegro library scales numbers such that
0x00010000 == 1.0.

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