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From: Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>
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Subject: Re: Saturated Math
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 07:32:14 -0400
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Yes. Exactly. In the real world, things have bounds that don't generate 
exceptions - they just create a limit beyond which one cannot go. In 
control logic, we *live* to rate and range limit things. :-) Examples of 
usage shouldn't be at all hard to imagine - anywhere in the world where 
there are walls that say "this far, but no farther" and you have a 
potential usage for a saturated number.

MDC

tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> 
>   I would imagine anywhwere actuators are involved.  eg, the brightness
> of a pixel, the loudness of a sound.  The Pentium has had special
> instructions for multimedia saturating arithmetic for some time now.
> OTOH, they also do SIMD, which is not especially well expressed in
> Ada and ought, for speed reasons, to be done in asm libraries.


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