On May 4, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Paul Stickney wrote: >> > Reasons to stay with/use an exponent based FP implementation is that > it can cover a much wider range (albeit it loses precision the further > out you go and can never entirely [accurately] represent a wide range > of discreet numbers) and NaN/Inf can be encoded-- are these needed for > *your* mote?
Also, floating point gives you relative precision, while fixed point gives you absolute precision. Phil _______________________________________________ Tinyos-help mailing list [email protected] https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help
