Re: Doing floating point math in Palm..?

2005-01-04 Thread David Orriss Jr
Ralph Curtis wrote: Check out http://www.davidbray.org/palm/dtostr.html and http://www.davidbray.org/palm/strtod.html The functions are strToDouble and doubleToStr - I got the name wrong from memory. The functions I use - quite successfully - are based on David's algorithms. I include them here: T

Re: Doing floating point math in Palm..?

2005-01-04 Thread Ralph Curtis
Check out http://www.davidbray.org/palm/dtostr.html and http://www.davidbray.org/palm/strtod.html The functions are strToDouble and doubleToStr - I got the name wrong from memory. The functions I use - quite successfully - are based on David's algorithms. I include them here:

Re: Doing floating point math in Palm..?

2005-01-03 Thread David Orriss Jr
Ralph Curtis wrote: Seems that most people use MathLib for intensive floating point work. Also provides trig functions. You might also search the archives for DoubleToString and StringToDouble algorithms that people have posted a number of times. I managed to find a version of DoubleToString in th

Re: Doing floating point math in Palm..?

2005-01-03 Thread Ralph Curtis
Seems that most people use MathLib for intensive floating point work. Also provides trig functions. You might also search the archives for DoubleToString and StringToDouble algorithms that people have posted a number of times. Ralph "David Orriss Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMA

Doing floating point math in Palm..?

2005-01-03 Thread David Orriss Jr
Can someone point to a few links or resources on how to take data from fields and do decimal arithmetic on them? I'm having a hard time figuring out of I should use the Fpl... or Flp.. routines or if (as I have heard) they are 'buggy' and I need to write my own (which would suck). Thanks. -- D