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- In a message of 23 Jan 96 Juergen "Rally" Fischer wrote to All:
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- JRF> aah, that's why the log talk :) I also had this idea, but as I'm not
- JRF> maths freak I see it philosophic: if there was a way in using log for
- JRF> this, some maths freak would have done ;)
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- I thought you were a *speed* freak ? (Like me.. :) )
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- Doesn't the thought of float multiplication replaced by add.l excite you ? Or a
- square root (for distance calculations perhaps) by asr.l #1,reg ??
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- JRF> as all maths freaks seem to be OS-fanatics that chose slower methods
- JRF> just because the source looks better ;D maybe there is a chance that
- JRF> log can be useful ;)
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- Tsk!
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- JRF> argh you'll need a log^-1 table, too. a*b=log^-1(log(a)+log(b))
- JRF> adding numbers of different size gives accuracy probs! |
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- Unavoidable,and logs don't make it any worse...
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- The only real problem is that most calculations tend to involve adds as well
- as multiplies,sqrt's .. and that means converting to and from log form.. But in
- some situations I imagine it can be faster than using an FPU...
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- Ben... :)
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