On Apr 23, 2005, at 1:35 PM, Mike Ryan wrote:

> I need to perform basic integration and basic differentiation using
> 8 bit algorithms in assembler,
>
> Would you know the basic approach or where I could find out how to do 
> it,
>
The basic approach should be described in any beginning numeric 
algorithms book,
and consists essentially a return to the basics of calculus - picking 
lines that
approximate the slope on your graph, or adding together 
rectangles/trapazoids/etc.

HOWEVER; those algorithms are likely to be heavily based on relatively 
accurate
floating point (part of the numeric analysis class is learning to keep 
track of
the errors that accumulate in spite of having 32+ bits of number.)  
You're likely
to need an awful lot of thought applied to doing things with 8 bit 
integers instead.
(just for instance, differentiation is the slope of a line, and it's 
going to
be less than 1 about half the time...)

BillW

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