In message <20040109072252.662303D5524@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Manuel Rot
schkar writes:
>
> It's some very simple pseudo implementation of floating
> point numbers of sorts.
Actually, it's a very real implementation of "fixed point" numbers.
Fixed-point math used to be a lot more common before we got
floating-point hardware, and is great for stuff like this.
(The difference, obviously, is that the "decimal" point doesn't
move or that it can.)
ab
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