Michael Watterson wrote:
>> Again not true.  Adds (subtracts are really adds with a little extra
>> bookkeeping) require normalization before the addition, which
>> explicitly means the point has to be moved around.
>
> it's quite possible do fixed point library  with only adjustment on
> mult/div, and add/subtract doesn't care where the point is.

Right, but we were talking about floating point.


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