[NTLK] inteliCalc

From: Gordon Stuart (id4_at_froggy.com.au)
Date: Thu Dec 11 2003 - 19:15:06 PST


I must have been a bit tired when I typed the email out.

The calculation I actually did was the simple subtraction 23.35 - 22.8 the answer returned was 0.449999999999999

The answer was and should have been positive but was out buy 0.000000000000001

> Fire up a copy of NTK and use the debugger to ask your newton what 22.35 -
> 22.8 is. If it gives the repeating 9s I would be very worried since the
> answer is supposed to be negative. On the other hand 22.8 - 22.35 may give
> you repeating 9's indicating that the representation is provided by the
> Newton ROM routines.

Sorry about the typo

Gordon

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