At 5:27 PM +1100 10/31/00, Alan Ingleby wrote:
>Does anyone know why some programs use an external floating point library
>(mathlib.prc) when the PalmOS 2.0 an up supports up to 64 bit floating point
>arithmetic directly??
MathLib provides functions that Palm doesn't: namely, the functions
you find declared in math.h on a "normal" platform. For instance, all
the trig functions like sin() and cos(), logarithms, exponentiation,
rounding, etc.
Dave Johnson
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