Re: float with 24-bit resolution

["Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

[-- Warning: decoded text below may be mangled, UTF-8 assumed --]
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 798 bytes --]


"Mark Johnson" <mark_h_johnson@raytheon.com> a �crit dans le message de news:3F4623A7.6718B8C0@raytheon.com...
[...]

> As I mentioned before, you certainly have to do the "right thing" when
> it comes to doing arithmetic and conversions to other forms, but fixed
> point decimal arithmetic without packed decimal data types can be done
> without introducing any errors.
>
True. What you are doing is simply doing by hand what the compiler
would do, with a higher probability of introducing errors (fixed points
are tricky, believe me!).

It's OK if your language has no decimal fixed points. Otherwise,
it's more work without any benefit.

-- 
---------------------------------------------------------
           J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr)
Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr