On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 at 10:20:57, P Witte wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>
>Fran�ois Van Emelen writes:
>
>> > It is not too difficult to write your own fixed
>> > or floating point routines in Basic using basic school maths, but they
>would
>> > be relatively slow. (The book "Mathematics on the Sinclair QL", by Czes
>> > Kosniowski (out of print) might provide a suitable starting point.)
>>
>> I doubt I could do that myself.
>
>Monetary calculations normally only require the four basic operations, add,
>subtract, multiply and divide.
Surely two only - addition and subtraction?
Multiplication and division are shorthand for addition/subtraction in
my book.
... or am I being too simplistic.
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