From: Kirk Reiser <kirk@braille.uwo.ca>
To: Sandy Harris <pashley@storm.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Advice saught on math functions
Date: 12 Jul 2002 12:46:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x73cuoevwt.fsf@speech.braille.uwo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D2EF8DB.4DB091FF@storm.ca>
Sandy Harris <pashley@storm.ca> writes:
> Can you do something useful with integer versions of those functions?
> Forth people have done astronomical calculations with only scaled
> 16-bit arithmetic. If it's accurate enough to aim telescopes, why
> not for your job?
Good question. It might work just fine. I'll take a closer look at
your suggestions and try to figure it out. The synth is not very
high quality so fixed point or integer may be sufficient.
Kirk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-12 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-12 14:08 Advice saught on math functions Kirk Reiser
2002-07-12 14:39 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-12 14:52 ` Kirk Reiser
2002-07-12 15:32 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-12 16:04 ` Kirk Reiser
2002-07-12 16:31 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-12 16:21 ` Dave Jones
2002-07-15 9:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-07-16 5:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-07-15 10:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-07-15 14:10 ` Kirk Reiser
2002-07-15 16:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-07-12 15:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-07-12 16:30 ` Kirk Reiser
2002-07-12 17:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-07-12 16:22 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-07-12 16:49 ` William Park
2002-07-13 14:00 ` Pavel Machek
2002-07-13 17:10 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-12 14:46 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-12 15:42 ` Sandy Harris
2002-07-12 16:46 ` Kirk Reiser [this message]
2002-07-14 0:20 ` Erik Andersen
2002-07-14 14:17 ` Sandy Harris
2002-07-14 16:49 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-07-14 17:01 ` Thunder from the hill
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