Ron Nicholson wrote:
> Very few PIM (Calendar, ToDo) or even game type applications require IEEE
> double floating point conversion. I've written more applications that require
> floating point than many (Basic interpreters and financial calculators), yet
> those types of applications are still in the minority for me.
Thanks. Much better stated than I could have said it.
>
>
> MathLib is only a 50k install, supports trig/log/exp functions, comes with
> full source (and for those that really know what kind of float conversions they
> want, including the boundary cases, MathLib includes log10, pow, round and
> trunc, which are all you need besides the built-in floating point library to
> roll your own "%6.2lf" or whatever floating point print routines.)
>
> IMHO. YMMV.
>
This is true, but you are not considering the cost of labor to support a piece of code
this complex. It makes memory management,
thread management, graphic primitives and hardware abstraction look easy. There is a
reason why there are so many small scientific
companies taking the hit to support functions like this. While you are at it, how
about an n dimensional array support for solving
differential equations too!
Steve
--
For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see
http://www.palm.com/devzone/mailinglists.html
