On 09Sep2006 18:20, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Look all this information is interesting. And indeed there have been | cpu-s that were capable of fixed point arithmetic. Pentiums are not | among them. I have not seen the source code for either bc or dc but I | doubt if they implement a form of fixed point arithmetic. It would be | possible to do this but it is an awful lot of trouble for something that | can be done in floating point arithmetic and then displayed with the | appropriate precision. Dc is for _arbitrary_ precision arithmetic. Floating point doesn't do that. Neither does the limited size integer registers in the CPU. _Egro_, it does its own math. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Because of its special customs, crossposting between alt.peeves and normal newsgroups is discouraged. - Cameron Spitzer
