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| From | BartC <bc@freeuk.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: complex number in struct form in C |
| References | (9 earlier) <m7r9bb$lgf$1@speranza.aioe.org> <20141229112747.367@kylheku.com> <m7sf31$ojc$1@speranza.aioe.org> <L5kow.322775$Ea7.266278@fx16.am4> <m7t4u3$v05$1@speranza.aioe.org> |
| Message-ID | <Isvow.940268$u67.647565@fx08.am4> (permalink) |
| Organization | virginmedia.com |
| Date | 2014-12-30 10:51 +0000 |
On 30/12/2014 03:07, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote: > BartC <bc@freeuk.com> wrote: >> (I'm done some typesetting (of technical manuals with hundreds of pages) >> using a graphical program that exclusively used floating point. The >> output was sent to a Postscript printer for it to do the hard job of >> getting quality output. Postscript seems to use floating point as its >> primary data type (I don't know what it does internally). > > Did you ever try to do a 90 or 180 degree rotation in PostScript? > Systems I used to know wouldn't do it right. (That is, sin(180) > and cos(90) aren't zero. What's so magical about fixed point then in that it manages to get sin(180) and cos(90) exactly right? That is, sin(pi) and cos(pi/2) when using radians, since usually working with degrees involves conversion to radians internally. But if degrees /are/ being used, then it is trivial to first check for these exact quarter angles. Even if they are expressed as 90.0 and 180.0. (In fact, I have an old graphics program where if you rotate bitmap objects, it can only display them when rotated by exactly 0, 90, 180, 270 etc degrees, but not 89.9 degrees. All expressed as floating point numbers.) >> Maybe, on a different system, there might have been the odd paragraph >> where a line break occurs before or after a particular word. But >> repeatability was not an issue. This is just a counter-example to your >> claim that you should never use floating point for typesetting.) > > I was just recalling some of Knuth's examples. You can argue it > out with him if you would like. This is the chap who used a made-up assembly language called MIX in his books (based around 6-bit word lengths or something)? This is instead of using a made-up high-level language (ie. pseudo-code) that people could understand. Enough said... -- Bartc
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complex number in struct form in C Dexterr <dejangru@gmail.com> - 2014-12-21 07:20 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-12-21 11:30 -0500
Re: complex number in struct form in C Dexterr <dejangru@gmail.com> - 2014-12-21 08:35 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2014-12-21 10:54 -0600
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Re: complex number in struct form in C "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2014-12-21 13:22 -0600
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Re: complex number in struct form in C "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2014-12-26 14:10 -0600
Re: complex number in struct form in C glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-28 07:04 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-12-28 13:14 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-28 10:45 -0600
Re: complex number in struct form in C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-28 08:56 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-29 10:10 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-12-29 19:40 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-29 20:54 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-12-29 21:55 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-30 03:07 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-12-30 10:51 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C Rosario193 <Rosario@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-30 12:15 +0100
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Re: complex number in struct form in C glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-01-12 22:51 +0000
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Re: complex number in struct form in C glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-28 07:17 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-12-26 20:49 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2014-12-27 00:22 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2014-12-27 08:25 -0600
Re: complex number in struct form in C Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-27 10:20 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2014-12-27 13:21 -0600
Re: complex number in struct form in C Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-27 13:11 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2014-12-27 15:36 -0600
Re: complex number in struct form in C Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-27 14:54 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-27 15:45 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-27 13:40 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-12-28 06:50 -0500
Re: complex number in struct form in C Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-28 04:25 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-12-28 06:44 -0500
Re: complex number in struct form in C Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2014-12-28 08:33 -0500
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Re: complex number in struct form in C glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-28 07:28 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-12-27 17:23 +0000
Re: complex number in struct form in C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-12-21 14:37 -0500
Re: complex number in struct form in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-12-21 12:37 -0800
Re: complex number in struct form in C glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-22 00:54 +0000
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