On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:45:19AM -0600, linux user wrote: > > C doesn't do fixed-point. > I don't know what is meant by this. If it means floating point, again this > is incorrect. C is capable of performing computations with integers, > floats, and doubles. What else is there? Fixed point is a "lossless" way to represent decimal fractions. Standard floating-point uses binary internally, and so "0.01" can't actually be represented properly (just as 1/3 can't be represented completely in decimal -- 0.33333...). Fixed point is generally implemented by using integers and keeping track of where a decimal point ought to be. (Addition is straightforward, multiplication/division gets an extra step.) It's also not in the C++ standard library, as far as I know. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 72 degrees Fahrenheit.
