Actually, what I was thinking was storing the FP numbers in native IEEE format within strings and then using methods for converting to/from other numeric formats (these also exist in the assembler set I mentioned). Might need to produce a special one to convert to/from a printable string format.
Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 8:35 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Sbasic and numbers > > On 14 Mar 2003 at 7:35, Dave Walker wrote: > > > > The hardest part will be to get agreement on the SB interface needed to > > support what is wanted. > > Probably the best would be to have functions to which pass the numbers as strings > to/from the package (eg result$=HP_ADD (number1$,number2$)). > The difficulty then lies in converting these strings into the numbers within the package > and back > How is this handled in C? > > Wolfgang
