Meaning of flotating point | Babel Free

Definitions

Misconstruction of floating point.

alt-of, misconstruction, not-comparable

Examples

“The drawback is that it's kinda slow; a high bailout value (required to get the range) forces one to use the flotating point algorithm.”

“MATHLIB has a problem if e.g. Sin() or, for what it seems, any other MATHLIB function is called repeatedly in a loop. In such cases a register is trashed (the one used for the loop variable) and the loop is terminated prematurely. However, if MATHLIB functions are called one at a time in the middle of the code it all works fine, and even after an huge amount of flotating point calculations (and I mean hours worth of it) the final results are identical to the Xtd DOS program's (also the speed is nearly identical).”

“This makes Java (even with a native compiler) essentially useless for any flotating point applicatations, numerics, games, etc etc etc. Of course, this was last time I checked. Sun might have seen the light since then.”

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