From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Fixed-point question
Date: 1995/04/06
Date: 1995-04-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.797192058@gnat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3li7ec$k37@butch.lmsc.lockheed.com
I would tell this user not to use fixed-point. If people don't understand
that fixed-point is basically scaled integer I/O and can then figure out
things for themselves based on this, they will get confused.
On most modern machines floating-point is much faster than fixed-point in
any case. Was there really a good case for using fixed-point in this cas.
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1995-04-01 0:00 Fixed-point question Garlington KE
1995-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Garlington KE
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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2015-06-26 16:56 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-06-26 18:21 ` Patrick Noffke
2015-06-26 20:21 ` Anh Vo
2015-06-26 20:25 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-06-27 2:55 ` Patrick Noffke
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2015-06-27 19:20 ` Bob Duff
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2015-06-27 20:42 ` Bob Duff
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