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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Fixed-point question
Date: 1995/04/06
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organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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Date: 1995-04-06T00:00:00+00:00
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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.