> Nice quicky for you. > > Just done Floating POint Numbers in my Maths course, and I was wondering > what the Sam used, ie mantisa length and maximum exponent.
Hum...eh...errr..not entirely sure about this, but...(recognize this one :)) Well, the SAM (as the spectrum) uses 7 bits for the exponent and 1 bit for the sign of the exponent. Then it uses 4 bytes for the mentissa. (I think) Anyway, what I was going to say was that I once wrote a fixed point calculator for the basic calculations (+-*/) that used 128 bits for the mentissa, and it was dead slow ;) > I want to do my homework on my Sam, just to see if the lecturer will > have heard off it :) Give him some hook-code calls :-) > > Tim > -- > Tim Paveley > Maths with Computer Science > -- ^ One To-day is Worth Two To-morrows (Ben Franklin) ^ | ....or: One To-morrow is Worth a Quarter of One Yester-day... | | Frode Tennebo | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | ECP/PT, CERN, Switzerland | http://www.hiMolde.no/~frodet | | Phone: +33 50 28 26 17 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
