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Date: 2007-02-01T17:30:02+01:00

On Tuesday 30 January 2007 16:55, Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:
> frikk a =E9crit :
> > Hello everyone! I am having a problem that I would love some help
> > with.
> >
> > Essentially I was given a Visual Basic program that dumps a binary
> > configuration file with all of the variables in a set.  The variables
> > are each 32 bit floats, with the first 16 bits being the integer part
> > and the second 16 bits being a representation of the fraction (I'm not
> > sure if this is stanard - but its just how VB dumps the data).
>
> Hmm... This looks like a fixed point representation, not a floating
> point one.
>
> [...]

Hello,

I was not aware that VB has some fixed point built-in.=20
(... In fact I never use the fixed point at all).
I was thinking that it's mostly a facility offered by Ada.
I undersand that it could be usefull for the monetary conversion for exampl=
e=20
but is it an important feature for a language to offer a built-in fixed poi=
nt=20
representation ? does a library can offer the same level of facility ?

Thanks.

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