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- On Fri, 24 Feb 1995, Ben Marty wrote:
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- > You asked about mathtrans.library being required in compiled AMOS
- > programs. I'm not sure, but my guess is that any work with floating point
- > numbers (which includes all floating point functions such as sin & cos and
- > maybe even division) would require mathtrans.library... that's just a guess
- > though. Maybe you can still do floating point math without it, but require
- > it only when using mathematical functions such as sin and cos (this situation
- > would be suggested by AMOS Pro's pathetic floating point math... mathtrans
- > sure wouldn't do that). The name, however, suggests translation of numbers,
- > perhaps between floating point and integer... or simply translation of any
- > number in that darn complicated IEEE format (that's probably mathieee???
- > though). I'll stop babbling now. There are my thoughts.
- >
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- just my thought but I think the 'trans' is for transcendental
- functions like sin & cos..
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- mike
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