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Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion

From Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion
Date 2026-07-25 13:22 -0500
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On 7/25/26 10:07, peter wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:08:35 +0200
> albert@SPENARNC.XS4ALL.NL wrote:
> 
...
>> I do not buy that 10e100 FSIN becomes any better if you do the
>> range reduction with utmost precision.
>>
> so what do you get for 10e100 fsin ?
> 
> In my system I get: (using 64 bit floats)
> 
> 10e100 fsin f.  0.995717064571709700
> 
> or to avoid the conversion to decimal
> 
> 10e100 fsin fh.  0x1.FDCEA088CF298p-1
> 
> 
Using the x87 FSIN instruction with this argument, I obtain NAN.

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KM

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kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-07-20 09:48 -0500
  Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion albert@SPENARNC.XS4ALL.NL - 2026-07-21 11:40 +0200
    Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-07-21 06:20 -0500
      Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion albert@SPENARNC.XS4ALL.NL - 2026-07-25 16:08 +0200
        Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion peter <peter.noreply@tin.it> - 2026-07-25 17:07 +0200
          Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-07-25 13:22 -0500
            Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-07-25 13:30 -0500
        Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-07-25 13:17 -0500
          Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-07-26 13:15 +1000
            Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-07-26 07:18 -0500
              Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-07-31 14:54 +1000
                Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-07-31 08:35 +0000
                Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-07-31 12:05 +0200
                Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-07-31 07:54 -0500
                Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-07-31 16:55 +0000
                Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-07-31 14:40 -0500
                Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-01 08:23 +0000
                Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-01 06:42 -0500
    Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-07-21 11:30 -0500
      Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-07-21 14:47 -0500
  Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion albert@SPENARNC.XS4ALL.NL - 2026-07-25 23:42 +0200
    Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-07-25 18:47 -0500
      Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion albert@SPENARNC.XS4ALL.NL - 2026-07-26 13:11 +0200
  Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion albert@SPENARNC.XS4ALL.NL - 2026-07-26 13:22 +0200
    Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-07-26 07:23 -0500
      Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion albert@SPENARNC.XS4ALL.NL - 2026-07-26 20:13 +0200
        Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-07-27 12:20 -0500
  Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-11 07:24 -0500
  Re: kForth-Win32 fix for decimal string to double float conversion Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-24 18:55 -0500

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