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From: hohl@isartext.de (HenryHH)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: FP number syntax
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2025 12:48:01 +0000
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On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 11:47:16 +0000, Anton Ertl wrote:

> But does anybody actually make use of DPL?  I have not seen a single
> use, ever.  Is it just some feature that someone thought up and
> implemented, and we all continued to implement it because we could and
> it was traditional?

I find DPL very useful and have used it all the time for many years.

This variable can replace a floating point package in cases where only
basic math operations (+, -, *, /) are required. I have used fixed point
math
in applications that control measurement systems in a physics
laboratory.

Please have a look at my fixed point math package on theForthNet.
http://theforth.net/package/fixed

Henry