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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] hoc output format
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:31:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <91a6ba03df805db6ccef6e8c48af88eb@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimWkzrs6J-0G_ESGMqeYj1P1FRrMR6lq7GpdM3P@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu May 13 11:28:29 EDT 2010, rogpeppe@gmail.com wrote:
> On 13 May 2010 15:23, erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
> > i typically do programming calculations and floating point
> > just isn't the right way to do that.
>
> it's ok if you stick to 32 bit and don't do divisions.

what!?

acid: (1<<36) / 10\Y
0x0000000199999999
acid: 0x0000000199999999*10\Y
0x0000000ffffffffa

works for me.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-13 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-12 10:24 Rudolf Sykora
2010-05-12 10:41 ` Alexander Sychev
2010-05-12 18:06   ` Akshat Kumar
2010-05-13  7:51     ` Alexander Sychev
2010-05-13 13:24       ` erik quanstrom
2010-05-13 14:06         ` Alexander Sychev
2010-05-13 14:23           ` erik quanstrom
2010-05-13 15:04             ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-05-13 15:09             ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-05-13 15:37               ` erik quanstrom
2010-05-13 15:16             ` roger peppe
2010-05-13 15:31               ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-05-13 15:53                 ` roger peppe
2010-05-13 16:06                   ` erik quanstrom
2010-05-13 16:16                     ` roger peppe
2010-05-13 15:54               ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-05-13 16:08                 ` roger peppe
2010-05-13 15:20             ` Rudolf Sykora

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