Re: [Amforth-devel] printing floats

[Leon N M. <leo...@gm...>]

> 1. it seems the fs. routine presition itself is 7 digits which is
> good
> 2. it seems the f/ most notably with larger operands (eg. +/- 1e15)
> introduces errors so the result's precision drops to 6 digits or
> less

Yes, the number of decimal points it prints should be related to the size of 
the number -- I just trusted an algorithm in the paper I linked to handle it 
correctly. 24 bit significands can hold about as much as 7 decimal digits, so 
that's about the most you should see.

> 3. what is interesting the fs. conversion took seconds (atmega
> @25MHz)e.g.:

This is partially a mistake on my part -- there are a number of things like 
"10 s>f" in the code which I should really replace with "[ 10 s>f swap ] 
literal literal", or something like that so that they don't have to be 
calculated repeatedly at run time. I meant to do it before release but forgot 
-- I'll do it today.

Even with that change, it still may be slow.

-Leon