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- From: micro@imada.ou.dk (Klaus Pedersen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: DSP in the Falcon
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.180845.19309@imada.ou.dk>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 18:08:45 GMT
- References: <H.H8xksAVnXI6@kynes.bison.mb.ca> <469@muller.loria.fr> <1992Sep1.102748.29585@aber.ac.uk>
- Sender: news@imada.ou.dk (USENET News System)
- Organization: Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Odense University, Denmark
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- hrs@aber.ac.uk (Herbert Martin Sauro) writes:
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- >I assume that the 56001 can only deal with integers (i.e no floating
- >point), is this true?
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- It uses 24/48/56 bit fixed point arithmetic(sp?).
- There is a fast floating point lib. available if a S/N of 144 dB (24bit) to
- 350 dB (56 bit) isn't enough.
-
- -Klaus
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