From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Floating/fixed point
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 02:34:08 -0700
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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.

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