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Date:      Wed, 25 Dec 2002 03:42:45 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: isnormal() ?
Message-ID:  <20021225024245.GC31992@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021224215932.47800.qmail@kimchee.ssr.com>
References:  <20021224164935.J62363-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> <20021224215932.47800.qmail@kimchee.ssr.com>

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On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 09:59:32PM -0000, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
> Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar> writes
> > On 24 Dec 2002, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
> > 
> > > Any mathoids have a way to implement isnormal() on FreeBSD, 4.7?
> > 
> > it would help if you tell us what isnormal() is.
> > 
> 
> 
To be fair, he did use the (appalling) word "mathoid" to imply that it
was a mathematical concept. I think most mathematicians would know what
he was after...await the day when someone asks if anyone has a
function to factorise huge prime numbers :)

> It returns non-zero if its argument is normalized (i.e., not: zero,
> denormalized, infinte, or NaN). It's usually a macro that calls
> fpclass(), but I can't find fpclass either :-(
> 
> I was hoping for something more efficient than isnan(), isinf(), etc.
> 
Well you could write it yourself,,

> Thanks Fer,
> Scott
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Regards
   Cliff Sarginson 
   The Netherlands

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