On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 08:18:27 -0400, you wrote:

>I'm in the process of changing all my floating points to fixed point
>numbers, but there are a few I need to stick with the
>floating point.
>
>Anyways, I have one particular floating point number which needs to be
>broken down to the following format to be
>displayed on an LCD screen:
>
>XXXX feet, XX.X inches
Just because it needs to be displayed with a DP doesn't mean you need FP.=
=20
A little extra code to split it up for display will probably greatly =
outweigh the code savings from
not using FP in calculations.=20
=46or example if you work in 24.8 fixed point in feet, this gives a range=
 of 16 million feet with a
resolution of 1/256 inch.=20

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