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Date:      Thu, 1 Jul 1999 12:29:16 +0300 
From:      "Huang Hui (NTC/Beijing)" <hui.huang@ntc.nokia.com>
To:        EXT Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Could I do floating point calculation in the kernel program?
Message-ID:  <199907010434.HAA20358@ns11.nokia.com>

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Yes, I need to do some math calculation such as "log" and "pow", could you
tell me what is fixed point math and how to use it?

Thanks,

Hui HUANG

-----Original Message-----
From: EXT Alfred Perlstein [mailto:bright@rush.net]
Sent: 01 July, 1999 6:45
To: Hui Huang
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Could I do floating point calculation in the kernel
program?


Do you really need the precision of floating point? Perhaps
you can used fixed point math?

-Alfred

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