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Re: Programming/maths question....soft floats...
07/27/13 12:50 AM
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> As for keeping "significant digits": if you mean keeping decimal digits, you
> definitely should see this: http://floating-point-gui.de/
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> As for dividing without a division instruction: see this:
> http://www.math.usm.edu/lambers/mat460/fall09/lecture10.pdf
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> If you are working on integers, and want the result as a percentage, you don't need
> soft floats. You can compute (A/B) as ((100*A)/B) and have your answer as a
> percentage. If you want to round to the nearest percentage point, compute (A/B) as
> ((((200*A)/B)+1)/2) or maybe ((((200*A)/B)+1)>>1) where >> is binary right-shift.
Just curious for my own betterment, was significant digits not a term that carried across well?
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