On Jul 6, 11 06:59, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/5/2011 3:45 PM, Don wrote:
Another thing -- why are some constants defined in decimal, others in
hex, and
one (E) with the long 'L' suffix?
The ones defined in decimal are obsolete, they haven't had a
conversion to hex yet.
The ones in hex I got out of a book that helpfully printed them as octal
values. I wanted exact bit patterns, not decimal conversions that might
suffer if there's a flaw in the lexer.
It's hard to come by textbook values for some of these that are high
precision.
It's definitely not good enough to just write some simple fp program to
generate them.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=pi+in+hexadecimal
