Labels:book | earth | poster | reckoner | sky | windowpane OCR: Chapter 10 Floating Point About This Chapter This chapter describes the Mops classes and words that manage floating point floating point number is a 1 byte data value which is stored in a block in the heap and is accessed through its pointer Recommended Reading SANE manual Source Files Floatint point Using Floating Point Floating point (FP) operations are implemented in different ways on different Macs Some have coprocesor, in some cases FP operations are available on the main processor, and some Macs have no hard ware FP at all, and must use the software package Standard Apple Numerics Env vironment, (SANE). FP computaions are handled by Mops in the appropriate way for the machine Mops 1 running on Many but not all FP functions are implemented as methods of class Float. Other functions ar ...
